Schwabe Verlag in
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (B ...
is the oldest
printing
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The ...
and
publishing
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...
house in the world. The company is based on the
Offizin founded by
Johannes Petri after 1488 and has since been an independent Swiss family business.
Schwabe publishes about 120
book
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical ...
s and
magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...
s annually, focusing on humanities. Academic proofreading and cooperation with university institutions and academies ensure the scientific quality of individual titles, large projects (e.g. the
Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, the History of Philosophy, the Augustine Encyclopaedia) and more than 20 ongoing series. The company also employs around 160 people working in
* Schweizerische Ärzteverlag (EMH)
* Johannes Petri, founded in 2010
* printing shop in
Muttenz
* computer science and bookshop "Das Narrenschiff".
History
In November 1488, Johannes Petri von Langendorf near Hammelburg in Franconia, who had learned the art of printing and typesetting in Mainz while Gutenberg was still alive, bought Basel citizenship and the guild rights of the saffron guild. As a result, he published partly independently, but mostly in a printing and publishing community with Johannes Amerbach and Johannes Froben. After his death, his nephew Adam Petri took over the business and reprinted almost all of Martin Luther's important writings. Adam's son Heinrich Petri printed literature from theology to classical authors and contemporary history to mathematics and natural sciences, medicine and alchemy, including numerous collective works and encyclopaedias. In 1556, he was knighted by Emperor Charles V. From then on his descendants called themselves Henricpetri.
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See also
*
List of oldest companies
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References
''Article contains translated text from
Schwabe AG on
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External links
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Book publishing companies of Switzerland
Manufacturing companies based in Basel
Companies established in the 15th century
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1488 establishments in Europe
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