Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur

Contributions to the History of the German Language and Literature (PBB ) is a journal of Germanic Medieval Studies for the older German language and literature.

The magazine was founded in 1874 by the neo-grammarians Wilhelm Braune and Hermann Paul. Today's common abbreviation comes from the older name of the journal as Paul and Brown posts. Editors are currently Ulrike Demske, Susanne Köbele (since 2012 for Klaus Grubmüller ), Jens Haustein (since 2013 Jan- Dirk Müller) and Damaris Nübling, the magazine from the publisher Walter de Gruyter is laid (formerly the Max Niemeyer Verlag).

Since issue 134, Issue 1 (2012 ), the editorial team is supported in the assessment of the submitted contributions by a ten-member scientific advisory board for the areas of language and literature.

• Literature: Carmen card Elle de Hartmann, Manfred Eikelmann, Volker Mertens, Stephan Müller, Julia Zernack

Programmatically, the journal is on contributions to linguistics and history of the German language and literature aligned with the involvement of Old Norse and Old English, of Germanic philology, medieval Latin philology and interdisciplinary contributions to archeology and Indo.

After the Second World War, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle / S. was nationalized by the GDR authorities. The renowned journal was continued thereafter under the same title there. Parallel founded the owner family Niemeyer in Germany in Tübingen her new publishing business and moved the posts unchanged. To distinguish between the two editions, these were featured in bibliographies from 1950 to 1990 by the addition of Sigel H for Hall of East German publication, or T for Tübingen West German publication.