Misplaced Pages

Birkhäuser

Parent company	Springer Science+Business Media (science) Walter de Gruyter (design)
Founded	1879
Founder	Emil Birkhäuser
Defunct	2012
Country of origin	Switzerland
Headquarters location	Basel
Publication types	books, academic journals
Official website	www.springer.com/gp/birkhaeuser (Springer) www.degruyter.com (de Gruyter)

Birkhäuser was a Swiss publisher founded in 1879 by Emil Birkhäuser. It was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 1985. Today it is an imprint used by two companies in unrelated fields:

• Springer continues to publish science (particularly: history of science, geosciences, computer science) and mathematics books and journals under the Birkhäuser imprint (with a leaf logo) sometimes called Birkhäuser Science.
• Birkhäuser Verlag – an architecture and design publishing company was (re)created in 2010 when Springer sold its design and architecture segment to ACTAR. The resulting Spanish-Swiss company was then called ActarBirkhäuser. After a bankruptcy, in 2012 Birkhäuser Verlag was sold again, this time to De Gruyter.

Additionally, the Reinach-based printer Birkhäuser+GBC operates independently of the above, being now owned by Basler Zeitung.

History

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The original Swiss publishers program focused on regional literature. In the 1920s the sons of Emil Birkhäuser established a basis for the current scientific program with academic journals and reference books, later progressing to textbooks and monographs in the natural sciences. (The company was formally known as "Verlag Emil Birkhäuser & Cie. A.G." back then.) In the 1940s the scientific segments were expanded and gained international recognition. Publications in civil engineering followed as did further journals and book series in the ensuing years. In the 1960s the publishing program was expanded to incorporate architecture and art of famous painters, lithographs and gravures. Birkhäuser opened a branch office in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1979 which focused on mathematics and theoretical physics. From 1985 to 2010 Birkhäuser entirely was a part of the Springer Group.

References

1. "About us Journals, Academic Books & Online Media | Birkhäuser". Springer.com. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
2. ^ "Birkhäuser Verlag ist insolvent - buchreport - Nachrichten VerlageNachrichten aus der Buch- und Medienbranche, Marktanalysen und SPIEGEL- Bestseller" (in German). Buchreport.de. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
3. "Birkhauser". Birkhauser. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
4. "Kunstbuch: Jetzt offiziell: Springer zum Birkhäuser-Verkauf an Actar | Verlage" (in German). boersenblatt.net. Archived from the original on 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
5. "De Gruyter übernimmt Birkhäuser" (in German). Degruyter.com. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
6. Archived August 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
7. "Birkhäuser+GBC AG". Birkhaeuser.ch. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
8. pop (2012-03-21). "Birkhäuser-Verlag vor der Pleite - Econo" (in German). Econo.de. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
9. "Birkhäuser prüft Abbau von 55 Stellen - News Basel: Land". Baz.ch/ (in German). bazonline.ch. Retrieved 2013-12-31.

v t e Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Holtzbrinck	DIE ZEIT Verlagsgruppe Die Zeit (50%) Zeit Wissen Spotlight Verlag Digital & Services Digital Science Altmetric Gutefrage.net
Macmillan	United States Trade Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Second Henry Holt Macmillan Audio Picador Quick and Dirty Tips St. Martin's Press Tor/Forge Tor.com Macmillan Learning Bedford-St. Martin's W. H. Freeman Worth Publishers i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Children's FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel and Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Square Fish United Kingdom Macmillan Pan Picador Tor Macmillan Children's Books Campbell Young Picador Sidgwick & Jackson Mantle Macmillan Audio Books Macmillan New Writing The Collector's Library Germany S. Fischer Rowohlt Kiepenheuer & Witsch (85%) Droemer Knaur (50%)
Springer Nature (53%)	Apress BioMed Central Birkhäuser Macmillan Education Nature Research Journals Palgrave Macmillan Journals Scientific American Springer Journals Springer Gabler Springer Medizin Ärzte-Zeitung Springer Vieweg

• Visual arts publishing companies
• Publishing companies of Switzerland
• Book publishing companies of Switzerland
• Springer Science+Business Media imprints
• Printing companies
• Publishing companies established in 1879
• Birkhäuser books