Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag
A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal () is a
Danish publishing house.
Founded in 1770 by
Søren Gyldendal, it is the oldest and largest publishing house in Denmark, offering a wide selection of books including
fiction,
non-fiction
Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with b ...
and
dictionaries. Prior to 1925, it was also the leading publishing house in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
, and it published all of
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential pla ...
's works. In 1925, a Norwegian publishing house named
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag ("Gyldendal Norwegian Publishing House") was founded, having bought rights to Norwegian authors from Gyldendal.
Gyldendal is a
public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange ( l ...
and its shares are traded on the
Copenhagen Stock Exchange (, ).
Gyldendal stopped the print version of their encyclopedia in 2006, focusing instead on selling paid subscriptions for its online encyclopedia
Den Store Danske By 2008 it had decided that it needed another approach to support that online site.
[Noam Cohen]
''The New York Times'', 16 March 2008 Since February 2009 Gyldendal is publishing an online, subscription-free encyclopedia.
Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries include:
RosinanteHøst & SønSamlerens Forlag* Forlaget Forum
* Forlaget Fremad
*
Hans Reitzels Forlag
Munksgaard* Academica
Systime* Exlibris
Gyldendals Bogklubber
See also
*
Wivels Forlag
References
External links
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Hans Reitzel ForlagForlaget MunksgaardGyldendals Bogklubber
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Danish companies established in 1770
Book publishing companies of Denmark
Publishing companies established in the 1770s
Mass media companies based in Copenhagen
Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality