Otto Wilhelm Harrassowitz (18 December 1845 in
La Guayra
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,
Venezuela
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– 24 June 1920 in
Gaschwitz near
Leipzig
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) was a German
book seller and
publisher
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.
His business, Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG, became an important book vendor for academic and research libraries beginning in the 19th century, and survives in that role today.
History
at www.harrassowitz.de A subsidiary, Harrassowitz Verlag
Harrassowitz Verlag is a German academic publishing house, based in Wiesbaden. It publishes about 250 scholarly books and periodicals per year on Oriental, Slavic, and Book and Library Studies. The publishing house is part of the company Otto Ha ...
(Harrassowitz Publishing House), is an academic publishing company.
See also
* Carl Anton Baumstark
Carl Anton Joseph Maria Dominikus Baumstark (4 August 1872 in Konstanz – 31 May 1948 in Bonn) was a German Orientalist, philologist and liturgist. His main area of study was Oriental liturgical history, its development and its influence on ...
* ''Oriens Christianus
''Oriens Christianus'' (English: "Christian East") is an academic journal established in 1901 by Otto Harrassowitz with Asian and oriental studies as the major focus. It was edited by Anton Baumstark (1872-1948). The current editors-in-chief are ...
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External links
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Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG
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The Harrassowitz Publishing House
People from La Guaira
19th-century German people
German publishers (people)
Publishing companies of Germany
German expatriates in Venezuela
Venezuelan people of German descent
German people of Venezuelan descent
1845 births
1920 deaths
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