Franz Steiner Publishing House

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Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1949
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management
  • Thomas Schaber, Publishing Director
  • Christian Rotta / André Caro / Benjamin Wessinger, management
Branch Book publisher , specialist literature
Website www.steiner-verlag.de

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The Franz Steiner Verlag is one of Franz Steiner was established in 1949, German publisher of humanities literature in the fields of History , Classics , Philosophy and Musicology, geography and Vocational Education. In 2008 the program was expanded to include non-fiction books for a larger readership. Today the publishing house is part of the media group Deutscher Apotheker Verlag .

history

The publisher's founder, Franz Steiner, was born in 1892 as the son of a print shop owner. He took over his parents' company and specialized in particular in ancient and rare foreign languages ​​and oriental works. In the interwar period, this resulted in close contacts with both the German Oriental Society and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, which were to prove important for the later founding of the publishing house. After founding the publishing house, Franz Steiner was able to conclude long-term contracts with both institutions, and from the beginning he worked closely with the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (the forerunner of the current German Research Foundation).

As early as 1946, the city of Wiesbaden offered Franz Steiner the opportunity to set up a scientific print shop; In 1949 he finally received the license to found a publishing house in Wiesbaden. The new publishing house established itself quickly and after just a few years it was an integral part of the scientific publication system in West Germany. This was also due to the fact that it was possible to take over some of the already existing and internationally renowned magazines such as Hermes and the Geographische Zeitschrift . The ancient historical journal Historia , newly founded in 1950, quickly established itself as an internationally important journal. The reputation of the rest of the publishing program also benefited from the prestige of these magazines.

After Franz Steiner's death in 1967, the company was sold to the Athenaeum publishing group of the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich (New York) concern. In 1974 he switched to the publishing group of the Deutsche Apotheker Verlag . In 1984 the publishing house moved from Wiesbaden to Stuttgart , the headquarters of the publishing group.

Publishing program

The original technical orientation of the publisher has remained in its basic features to this day. The focus is on the humanities , in particular on ancient history, classical philology, economic and social history, as well as the history of science and medicine. These program segments are supplemented by national history, Eastern European research and transatlantic studies. Since 2008, Steiner has also been publishing non-fiction and study books aimed at a broader academic public and students.

The publisher publishes around 180 of its own publications and commission titles each year. The publisher also publishes 17 specialist journals and a total of over 150 series from the fields of history, ancient philology, legal philosophy, musicology, geography and professional education. The publisher's backlist includes around 4,000 available titles, including increasingly e-books that are offered via the publisher's own e-library. The journals include traditional and internationally respected organs such as Hermes , Historia , the Geographische Zeitschrift , the quarterly journal for social and economic history (VSWG) or Sudhoff's archive . The series of publications includes the Heidelberg Ancient History Contributions and Epigraphic Studies (HABES), the treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and Oriens et Occidens , the Munich East Asian Studies . The Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Stiftung also publishes some of its publications here. Since 2018, the series of cultures of science with the sub-series I History of Science , II Knowledge Research and III Pallas Athene. History of institutionalized science .

literature

  • Irene Ferchl: You have to have breath. Publisher portrait: For example Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH , in: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (Frankfurt edition) No. 18 of March 5, 1985, pp. 580-582.
  • Without author: Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, vorm. Wiesbaden , in: Heinz Karrasch (Hrsg.): Geography: Tradition and progress. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG Journal 12), Heidelberg 1998, pp. 341–343.
  • Hans Robert Roemer: Obituary for Franz Steiner (1892-1967) , in: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische Gesellschaft 118, 1968, pp. 219-223.
  • Bernhard Sticker: Scientific publishing house and research planning. Franz Steiner on his 75th birthday , in: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (Frankfurt edition) No. 60 of July 28, 1967, pp. 1600–1602.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Without author: Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, vorm. Wiesbaden , in: Heinz Karrasch (Hrsg.): Geography: Tradition and progress. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Heidelberg Geographical Society, Heidelberg 1998, p. 341.
  2. ^ Hans Robert Roemer: Obituary for Franz Steiner (1892-1967) , in: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische Gesellschaft 118, 1968, p. 220.
  3. ↑ Without author: Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, vorm. Wiesbaden , in: Heinz Karrasch (Hrsg.): Geography: Tradition and progress. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG Journal 12), Heidelberg 1998, p. 341.
  4. ^ Bernhard Sticker: Scientific publishing house and research planning. Franz Steiner on his 75th birthday , in: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (Frankfurt edition) No. 60 of July 28, 1967, p. 1601.
  5. ↑ Hans Robert Roemer: Obituary for Franz Steiner (1892-1967) , in: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländische Gesellschaft 118, 1968, p. 221.
  6. ↑ Without author: Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, vorm. Wiesbaden , in: Heinz Karrasch (Hrsg.): Geography: Tradition and progress. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG Journal 12), Heidelberg 1998, p. 341.

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