Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag
A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal () is a
Danish publishing house.
Founded in 1770 by
Søren Gyldendal, it is the oldest and largest publishing house in Denmark, offering a wide selection of books including
fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...
,
non-fiction and
dictionaries
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, p ...
. Prior to 1925, it was also the leading publishing house in
Norway, and it published all of
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...
's works. In 1925, a Norwegian publishing house named
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Danish publishing ho ...
("Gyldendal Norwegian Publishing House") was founded, having bought rights to Norwegian authors from Gyldendal.
Gyldendal is a
public company and its shares are traded on the
Copenhagen Stock Exchange (, ).
Gyldendal stopped the print version of their encyclopedia in 2006, focusing instead on selling paid subscriptions for its online encyclopedia
Den Store Danske By 2008 it had decided that it needed another approach to support that online site.
[Noam Cohen]
''The New York Times'', 16 March 2008 Since February 2009 Gyldendal is publishing an online, subscription-free encyclopedia.
Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries include:
RosinanteHøst & SønSamlerens Forlag* Forlaget Forum
* Forlaget Fremad
*
Hans Reitzels Forlag
Munksgaard* Academica
Systime* Exlibris
Gyldendals Bogklubber
See also
*
Wivels Forlag
References
External links
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Hans Reitzel ForlagForlaget MunksgaardGyldendals Bogklubber
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Danish companies established in 1770
Book publishing companies of Denmark
Publishing companies established in the 1770s
Mass media companies based in Copenhagen
Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality