Harrassowitz Publishing House
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 Harrassowitz GmbH & Co.
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Jürgen Holstein, Waltraud Holstein (Hrsg.): Goldrausch Werther: Antiquariatskataloge als Sonderfall des Umschlagdesigns. Berlin: Holstein, 2014 ISBN 978-3-00-043240-8 · Public domain
- Founded
- 1872
- Founder
- Otto Harrassowitz
- Headquarters
- Wiesbaden
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- Harrassowitz
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KG, founded by Otto Harrassowitz. Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG is a book vendor for academic and research libraries, founded in Leipzig in 1872.
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Harrassowitz Publishing House is an organisation recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (established 1872). The founding of Harrassowitz Publishing House is recorded in 1872; the seat is recorded as Wiesbaden.

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• Founder — Otto Harrassowitz • Country — Germany • Headquarters — Wiesbaden • Publications — Books and academic journals • Url — https: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/
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- 1.Curt Vinz, Günter Olzog (Hrsg.): Dokumentation deutschsprachiger Verlage. 8. Ausgabe. Günter Olzog Verlag, München/Wien 1983, ISBN 3-7892-9855-7, Lemma Otto Harrassowitz.
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- 3.Harrassowitz übernimmt verlegerische Betreuung der Monumenta Germaniae Historica auf buchmarkt.de, abgerufen am 16. Juli 2021.
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