Urban & Schwarzenberg
Urban & Schwarzenberg was a German academic publishing company, specializing in medical literature. It was founded as a book store in 1866 in Vienna. It acquired the Wiener Medizinische Presse in 1876, marking the start of Urban & Schwarzenberg as a medical publisher.
Urban & Schwarzenberg
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- Name
- Urban & Schwarzenberg
- Founded
- 1866
- Headquarters
- Munich · Vienna
- Dissolved
- 1998
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Urban & Schwarzenberg was a German academic publishing company, specializing in medical literature. It was founded as a book store in 1866 in Vienna. It acquired the Wiener Medizinische Presse in 1876, marking the start of Urban & Schwarzenberg as a medical publisher.
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In 1898, the company opened an office in Berlin, which soon after became its new head office. The company relocated to Munich in 1949. Acquired by the American company Waverly (parent of Williams & Wilkins) in 1990. Acquired by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1998. In 1999, it was merged with another publishing house owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck, and became Urban & Fischer. In 2003, Urban & Fischer was acquired by Elsevier.
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• Name — Urban & Schwarzenberg • Parent — Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck • Founded — 1866 • Successor — Urban & Fischer • Country — Germany • Headquarters — Munich • Publications — Books • Topics — medical literature
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The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars. Recorded from 1866. Associated with Germany.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 2025079-4, Urban & Schwarzenberg.
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• Hundert Jahre Urban & Schwarzenberg. 1866–1966, Munich, 1966
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- 1.Vgl. Walter Habel (Hrsg.): Wer ist wer? Das deutsche Who’s who. 24. Ausgabe. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, ISBN 3-7950-2005-0, S. 1273.
- 2.Günter Thiele, Heinz Walter (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Medizin und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 6 Bände, Verlag Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1. Band (A bis Carfimatum), München / Berlin / Wien 1966, ISBN 3-541-84000-5. Insgesamt 250.000 Stichwörter, über 350 Fachautoren, 32 Lieferungen, keine Ergänzungslieferungen, 5142 Seiten, Auflage 5500, Preis 1200 DM. Günter Thiele und Heinz Walter leiteten die Lexikonredaktion des Verlages. Der Verleger Michael Urban errechnete 1977 nach 15 Jahren einen finanziellen Fehlbetrag von 8 Millionen Mark und stellte deswegen das Werk ein.
- 3.Michael Urban schrieb 1977 diesbezüglich einen Brief „An die Bezieher des Reallexikons der Medizin“ zwischen den Seiten VI und VII im ersten Plastikordner.
- 4.Dagobert Tutsch (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Medizin. Urban & Schwarzenberg, München / Berlin / Wien 1975, ISBN 3-541-03012-7, ISBN 3-541-07081-1, 560 Seiten.
- 5.Handlexikon der Medizin. 2 Bände, Verlag Urban & Schwarzenberg, München / Wien / Baltimore 1980, ISBN 3-541-09101-0 und ISBN 3-541-09501-6. Band 1: A–K. ISBN 3-541-09111-8 und ISBN 3-541-09511-3; Band 2: L–Z. ISBN 3-541-09121-5 und ISBN 3-541-09521-0.
- 6.Michael Urban im Vorwort zur vierbändigen Sonderausgabe (für Boehringer Mannheim) des „Thiele, wie es wohl bald genannt werden wird.“ Günter Thiele (Hrsg.): Handlexikon der Medizin. 4 Bände. Verlag Urban & Schwarzenberg, München / Wien / Baltimore ohne Jahr [1980], 2798 Seiten, S. V.
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