The Bibliographic Institute Publishing House ( German: Bibliographisches Institut ) is a publishing house founded by Joseph Meyer in 1826 in Gotha . In 1828, the publishing house was transferred to Hildburghausen .
From the very beginning, the “Bibliographic Institute” gained great fame, thanks to a new subscription to books and publications at the time. The publishing house produced collections of German, Greek and Roman classics, collections of books on historical and natural sciences , maps , engravings, and more. In 1840 - 1855, the Bibliographic Institute published the “Big Encyclopedic Dictionary” ( Das Grosse Conversations-Lexikon ) in 46 main and 6 additional volumes (the 5th and 6th edition of the dictionary formed the basis of the Russian “ Big Encyclopedia”). ", Published by the partnership" Enlightenment ").
In 1856, German-Julius Meyer, the son of Joseph Meyer, took over the management of the Bibliographic Institute. In 1874, the "Bibliographic Institute" was transferred to Leipzig . In 1890, the building of the "Institute" was expanded and occupied an area of 6,600 square meters . The productivity of the main workshops of the publishing house at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries can be judged from the data from the annual reports, in which it was indicated that the typography produced 120 million copies ; lithograph 20.5 million prints; satin hall 115 million; binding workshop 1 million brochures and 830 thousand bound books . At that time, from 650 to 680 people worked at the “Institute”.
In 1915, the "Bibliographic Institute" was transformed into a joint-stock company . During the years of Hitler's rule , the “Bibliographic Institute” embarked on the path of glorifying national socialism . The eighth edition of the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary, interrupted at the ninth volume in 1942 , was frankly fascist in nature. After the victory over fascism in 1945, the Bibliographic Institute was liquidated as a joint-stock company. In 1946 he was reinstated in the GDR as a national enterprise . In 1953, the "Bibliographic Institute" settled in Mannheim ( Germany ) as a joint-stock company. In 1984, the Bibliographic Institute and FA Brockhaus merged into the joint venture Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus , which in 1988 became part of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group.
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- The Langenscheidt Publishing Group (English) (inaccessible link) . The appeal date is July 13, 2010. Archived May 17, 2009.
- Bibliographisches Institut GmbH (German) . The appeal date is July 13, 2010. Archived May 2, 2012.
Literature
- Meyer, Joseph (annex to the article) // Great Encyclopedia edited by S. N. Yuzhakov : In 22 volumes (20 tons and 2 extra). - SPb, 1900-1907.
- Meyer Joseph / / Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons. (82 tons and 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Meyer encyclopedic dictionaries // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.