WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
- Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
- Sort Name
- WBG
- Type
- Publisher
- Area
- Darmstadt
- Date Founded
- ?
- Date Dissolved
- ?
Wikipedia
The Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) was a German publishing house in Darmstadt. With about 60,000 subscribers (as of 2023) it was one of the largest book clubs in Germany.
German scientists founded the WBG in 1949 as a voluntary association to help with the shortage of scientific literature after World War II. Its aim was to publish new books and to reprint standard works, scarce in that era. The company's principal founder and first managing director was Ernst Anrich. One of its founding members was the philosopher Wilhelm Weischedel.
Nowadays the WBG publishes works from about 20 fields of study, sent by mail order to its members. About a third of its programme is reprints of other publishers' scientific works.
These publishers belong to the WBG:
- Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt (founded 1996)
- Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart (taken over 1997)
- Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz (taken over 2005)
Editions
| Name | Author Credits | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Der deutsche Bauernkrieg | Günther Franz | Hardcover | 3-534-00202-4 | 1977 |
| Die Universität: Geschichte einer europäischen Institution | Hans-Albrecht Koch | Hardcover | ? | 2008 |
| Das Königreich der Vandalen: Geiserichs Herrschaft und das Imperium Romanum | Konrad Vössing | Hardcover | ? | 2014 |
Relationships
- WBG(Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft) holds the copyright for Die Universität: Geschichte einer europäischen Institution
- WBG(Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft) holds the copyright for Der deutsche Bauernkrieg
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- Last Modified
- 2025-06-06