Kosmos (publisher)

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Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG is a media publishing house based in

The "Friends of Nature Club" (Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde) was set up in 1903 in response to booming public interest in science and technology, and by 1912 100,000 members were receiving its monthly magazine "Cosmos" (Kosmos). The company moved into publishing books on popular science topics under the brands Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung and KOSMOS, including successful non-fiction guidebooks by Hanns Günther and Heinz Richter. Children's fiction and Kosmos-branded science experimentation kits were introduced in the 1920s, first in the field of electronics and then chemistry and other areas. In 1937, this effort led to a gold medal at the world exhibition in Paris.

Kosmos's current output includes non-fiction, children's books, science kits and

• Beowulf: The Legend
• Exit: The Game
• Jambo
• Lord of the Rings
• Lost Cities
• The Settlers of Catan
• TwixT

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Kosmos (publisher) at BoardGameGeek

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