''Wege der Forschung'' (WdF, ''Ways of Research'') is the name of a historic interdisciplinary book series about topics of

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

, first published by Hermann Gentner Verlag in Bad Homburg, later by

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft The Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) is a German publishing house in Darmstadt. With about 140,000 subscribers (as of 1999) it is one of the largest book clubs in Germany. German scientists founded the WBG in 1949 as a voluntary associati ...

in Darmstadt. The most important contributions of various authors from the history of research were compiled on a single topic – usually in chronological order. Generally, the essays were already published before, such as in scientific journals; in some cases, however, they were first publications. The series appeared from 1956 to 1995 and comprised 657 volumes. The successor series of the publishing house, which has been published since 2000, is called ''Neue Wege der Forschung'' (''New Ways of Research'').

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