Birkhäuser

The Birkhäuser Verlag Basel was a Swiss academic publisher.

History

Emil Birkhäuser (1850-1930) was born in Thuringia; he came as a young typesetter to Switzerland and founded in 1879 in Basel own small print shop, which later developed the publisher. After he was taken in the municipal law of Basel in 1884, he wanted to work as a thank you to Switzerland, which enabled him to succeed, " ... patriotic work of lasting value " create a. This he did by printed the images from the history of Swiss history painter Karl Jauslin.

At the beginning Birkhäuser produced mainly regional literature, and later journals, monographs and textbooks to do so. In the 1940s, the science program has been greatly expanded and gained worldwide renown. It came to publications for engineering. Through the establishment of a foreign branch in Boston in 1979, the presence on the American market, particularly by focusing on literature in the fields of mathematics and theoretical physics was increased.

1985 Birkhauser Verlag was sold to the Springer -Verlag, the printing went to the Basler Zeitung Medien, they merged in 1990 with the Graphical Works Coop Birkhäuser GBC AG. In 1998, Springer, the architecture program of Artemis and integrated it into the Birkhäuser Verlag. In 2002, the design magazine was taken over form. The end of 2009 Springer sold the field of architecture and design at the Spanish Architecture Publisher Actar (Barcelona) (new name: Group ActarBirkhäuser ). Since then, the Springer leading imprint Birkhäuser Science and ActarBirkhäuser led the imprint Birkhäuser. About the latter, the bankruptcy proceedings were opened on 6 March 2012. On April 24, 2012 reported De Gruyter, the Berlin publishing the publisher Birkhäuser takes over as imprint. Since then, he belongs to the group of De Gruyter; the seat of Birkhäuser is still in Basel.