Wilhelm Braumüller University Publishing Bookstore
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '11.4 " N , 16 ° 21' 50.7" E
| Braumüller GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1783 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Bernhard Borovansky, Konstanze Borovansky |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.braumueller.at |
The Braumüller Verlag with its founding in 1783 one of the oldest private publishing houses in Austria . Until 2009 the publishing house was called Wilhelm Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung . The publishing house is located at Servitengasse 5 in the 9th district of Vienna . The publishing program today includes literary titles and non-fiction books on the subjects of culture, politics, enjoyment and society.
history
The history of the house begins on March 26, 1783 with the issue of the concession document to Johann Mösle. His successor and later namesake of the company, Wilhelm von Braumüller , born in 1807 in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , went to Vienna after completing his book trade apprenticeship in Eisenach and took over a publishing and retail bookshop with Ludwig Wilhelm Seidel . In 1835 Wilhelm Braumüller joins the widow Mösle's company, receives the license to trade books in 1840 and takes over the company under the name Braumüller und Seidel . In 1859 the newly founded Austrian Academy of Sciences appointed Wilhelm Braumüller, who has since separated from Seidel, to be its sole bookseller.
kk court bookseller and publisher
From January 13, 1865, Braumüller was allowed to run the addition " kk Universitäts-Buchhandlung ". At the time, the publishing house is located at Wickenburggasse 13 in the 8th district.
Wilhelm Ritter von Braumüller (1838 - † December 30, 1889), the son of Wilhelm von Braumüller (senior), joined the bookstore at Graben 21, which traded as " Wilhelm Braumüller & Sohn " from 1868 as a partner .
Wilhelm Ritter von Braumüller had been a public partner in his father's company since 1868, who continued the extensive business in accordance with the traditions taken over from his father until he died relatively early on December 30, 1889.
His eldest son Wilhelm Ritter von Braumüller junior (born 1861) also worked in the business, but he died in 1888.
For several years the company was managed by long-term employees of the company until the grandchildren of the founder of the company, Adolf Ritter von Braumüller (born 1868) and Rudolf Ritter von Braumüller (born 1870), became public shareholders in January 1, 1894 entered the company and took over the business.
In 1893, for example, the company acquired the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift , Oesterr. Aerztekammerblatt , journal for medicine , journal for economics , social policy and administration , contributions to palaeontology and geology ; the Militaria Department was significantly strengthened by the magnificent works of Archduke Carl von Oesterreich selected writings (1893–95), Moritz von Angeli's writings on Karl von Österreich-Teschen as a commander and army organizer (5 volumes from 1896–1897), Braumüller's military paperbacks, among others; Also to be mentioned are: Jettel's handbook of international private law (1893), Knauer's main problems of philosophy (1892), contributions to clinical medicine and surgery (21 booklets up to 1899), handbook of veterinary surgery and obstetrics , edited by Bayer & Fröhner (1896 uff .), a large company; Kaposi's Handatlas of Skin Diseases , Ortner's Therapy of Internal Diseases and Zuckerkandl's Atlas of Topographical Anatomy . The company "LW Seidel", which was branched off in 1848 (since 1861 "LW Seidel & Sohn, kk Hofbuchhandlung" in Vienna, whose owner was Ludwig Wilhelm Seidel since 1895 ) mainly maintained product ranges. She preferred military and historical works. But her publishing house also had a number of important works, such as the magazine of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects and the Army Gazette .
The company remained in the possession of the Braumüller family until 1915. Due to financial difficulties in the wake of the First World War, the publishing house is sold to the Jasper printing company in 1915. With the shareholders Friedrich Jasper and Alfred Leithe-Jasper, the company comes into the family of the current owner Konstanze Borovansky, who has been managing director of the publishing house since 2002 and who is the fifth generation of the Jasper family to manage the publishing house.
The most well-known publications in the history of the publishing house include publications from the medical field (publications by the Vienna Medical School with authors such as Josef Hyrtl , Arthur Schnitzler , Carl Rokitansky , Emil Zuckerkandl, etc.), Carl Menger's Principles of Economics , Otto Weininger's controversial work Gender and Character , Oswald Spengler's Fall of the Occident and in the textbook area of Pochlatko , the literary history for generations of schoolchildren, which continues to have an effect as an outline of German-language literature and in a new edition as discovering literature by Manfred Mittermayer and Fritz Popp.
Publishing program science and textbooks until 2012
Knowledge and education was the motto, science and textbooks were the two pillars on which the publishing house rested until 2012. As an independent private publisher, Braumüller focused on scientific literature from the disciplines of philosophy , literature , theater , politics , history , law , communication , sociology and more until 2012 . The traditional focus of the publishing house also included minority issues.
Some authors and editors who published in the science and textbook publisher Braumüller: Anton Pelinka , Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , Theodor Tomandl , Karl Korinek , Clemens Jabloner and many others, in the textbook area Wilhelm Dabringer, Edith Konecny, Günter Lachawitz, Maria-Luise Leitner, Konrad Paul Liessmann and Ernst Nowotny.
Non-fiction and literature program today
In 2008 the publishing house was taken over by Konstanze and Bernhard Borovansky. In early 2009 they expanded their program to include a non-fiction book and a literature program. In 2012, the new managing directors decided to sell both the textbook program (to the Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky publishing house) and the science program (to the new academic press). Since then, Braumüller has been a purely literary and non-fiction publisher and is thus returning to its roots when, during the turmoil of the French Revolution, texts by the Enlightenment were published by Johann Ritter von Mösle. Around twenty-five to thirty titles are published each year. These include contemporary German and international literature, in particular translations from Czech and non-fiction books from the field of enjoyment such as cookbooks, tea books, coffee books and popular non-fiction books on the subjects of culture, politics and society as well as a travel book series ( Off the beaten track ) that focuses on remote places in well-known cities.
Magazines
The following journals were also published by Braumüller by the end of 2010:
These magazines have been published by Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG since 2011 .
literature
- Haslinger, Ingrid: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors. Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- Beyer, W. v. Braumüller u. H. v. Cotta, Vienna 1881 a. Publishing catalog.
- Schmidt, Rudolf: German booksellers. German book printer . Volume 1. Berlin / Eberswalde 1902, pp. 84-87.
- Braumüller, Wilhelm . In Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 3. Leipzig 1905, p. 346.
- Braumüller, Wilhelm . In Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , fifth edition, volume 1. Leipzig 1911, p. 258.
- Schuchter, Bernd: The Braumüllerverlag and its time. 235 Years - A Publishing History 1783-2018 . Vienna Braumüller 2018, ISBN 978-3-99100-251-2