The German publishing company was founded 1826 in
Gotha
Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...
by
Joseph Meyer, moved 1828 to Hildburghausen and 1874 to
Leipzig.
Its production over the years includes such well-known titles as ' (encyclopaedias, since 1839, see '), ' (animal life, 1863–1869, 4th ed. 1911–1918); ' (dictionaries on every aspect of the language, since 1880); ' (guide books, 1862–1936); ' (home and foreign literature); atlases (', '), newspapers (''Koloniale Zeitschrift'')
and others.
The buildings of the company were completely destroyed by the bombing raids on Leipzig 1943/1944; the company itself expropriated by the communist regime of
East Germany in 1946 and turned into a '. The shareholders moved the company to
Mannheim in
West Germany in 1953 (). Titles like ', ', ' and ' appeared again. In Leipzig remained the , operating in the same field, publishing '", ' etc.
In 1984 amalgamated with its biggest competitor in the market of reference works, of Wiesbaden to Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG,
having their seat in Mannheim. After the
German reunification the company regained its former properties in Leipzig in 1991.
See also
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Verlag Enzyklopädie
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1826 establishments in Germany
Companies based in Leipzig
Companies established in 1826
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