- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (V&R) is a scholarly
publishing house based inGöttingen ,Germany . It was founded in 1735 byAbraham Vandenhoeck (1700-1750) in connection with the establishment of the Georg-August-Universität in the same city.After Abraham Vandenhoeck's death in 1750, his English-born widow, "Anna Vandenhoeck", née Parry (d. 1787) successfully continued the business together with "Carl Friedrich Günther Ruprecht" (born 1730), who had entered the business as an eighteen-year old apprentice in 1748. At the death of Anna Vandenhoeck in 1787, Ruprecht took over the business which he led until his death in 1816, when he was succeeded by his then 25-year old son Carl August Adolf Ruprecht (1791-1861). Leadership of the company remained in the hands of the Ruprecht family for seven generations.
The classical core areas of the publications of V&R are Theology and Religion, History, Ancient History, Philosophy and Philology. Current production also includes schoolbooks and non-academic publications.
In 1935, the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences gave Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht responsibility for its publications. These include the "Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", the "Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", and the "Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen ", the last of which is the oldest academic journal in the German-language area.During the Nazi period, V&R published the journal "
Junge Kirche " ("Young Church"), the mouthpiece of the anti-Nazi ProtestantConfessing Church . The periodical was shut down by the authorities in 1941; for the rest ofWorld War II , the company was forced to limit its publishing to philology, natural sciences and schoolbooks. After the war, it went back to its earlier ambitions to be a comprehensive academic press.References
* [Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht] : "225 Jahre Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht in Göttingen", Göttingen 1960.
*Wilhelm Ruprecht: "Väter und Söhne: zwei Jahrhunderte Buchhändler in einer deutschen Universitätsstadt", Göttingen 1935.
* "Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen: 1735 - 1985" Im Selbstverlag (Broschüre, 17 Seiten), 1985.
* "Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1735 - 1985. Jubiläumskalender: für das Jahr 1985 mit Kupferstichen aus Büchern d. 18. Jh." Im Selbstverlag, 1985 (26 S.)External links
* [http://www.v-r.de/ Official website of Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen]
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