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Springer Vieweg Verlag (formerly known as Vieweg+Teubner Verlag) is a German publishing company that specializes in books on technical subjects. It is a subsidiary of '' Springer Science+Business Media''. The original ' was founded in Berlin in 1786 by

Friedrich Vieweg Johann Friedrich Vieweg (; 11 March 1761 – 25 December 1835) was a German publisher and the founder of Vieweg Verlag. Early life He was the son of master tailor Johann Valentin Vieweg (d. 1785), who later owned a starch factory. After cancell ...

. The firm's headquarters were in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

from 1799 to 1974, at which time they were moved to Wiesbaden. In 2008, the company merged with '; another technical speciality publisher that was founded in Leipzig in 1811, becoming ''Vieweg+Teubner Verlag''. In 2012, the joint firm was acquired by ''Springer Science+Business Media'' and is now known as ''Springer Vieweg Verlag''. The publisher focuses on construction engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, mathematics,

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

and natural sciences. According to the publisher, more than 30 Nobel Prize laureates have been published by ''Vieweg Verlag'', among which are

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

and Max Planck.

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