Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung
scientific publisher
Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung (English: Brothers Borntraeger Publishing House) is a scientific publishing company covering the fields of botany, Earth science, and environmental science.
History
The publishing house was established in 1790, in Königsberg by (Matthias) Friedrich Nicolovius (1768-1836). It was taken over in 1818, by the Borntraeger brothers. Their authors included Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel and Immanuel Kant. In 1867, they purchased Verlagsbuchhandlung from Edward Eggers, moved to Berlin and shifted the emphasis to natural sciences. Carl Robert Thost, one of the 34 founding members of the German Palaeontological Society (Paläontologische Gesellschaft), strengthened the publisher's board in 1895.
The publisher is notable before WWII for its monographs, e.g. Köppen and Wegeners seminal work about the Climates of the past (1923), which is still relevant to climate science today.
After World War II, they relocated to Nikolassee. In 1968, the owners of E. Schweizerbart took over the publisher, and moved to Stuttgart where they cooperate with the sister publisher but the publishers, whilst affiliated, remain formally independent.
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