F. A. Brockhaus AG

F. A. Brockhaus AG

Book publishing
Founded	1805 in Amsterdam
Founder	Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
Defunct	March 20, 2009 (2009-03-20)
Fate	Merger with Bibliographisches Institut AG to Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG (1984) Divestiture (break-up) through asset-stripping (2009)
Successor	Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG
Headquarters	Munich , Germany

F. A. Brockhaus AG was a German

or the Harenberg Lexikon-Verlag and Kunstverlag Weingarten. Its legal successor is the company Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG.

The publicly traded company was eventually divested through fundamental asset-stripping after rights of the renown Brockhaus brand, including rights for its online presence and Meyers Online, were sold off to Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato, following a stock take-over through majority stakeholder Cornelsen Verlag. The remaining book publisher and legal successor, which has completely withdrawn from any lexical functional grammar or reference-works business fields, now operates under the name Bibliographisches Institut GmbH.^[1]

History

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Footnotes

Bibliography

• "Brockhaus", The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970

External links

• Official website (in German)