Der Springer-Verlag

A catalogue of all the publications of a publishing house is the performance record of its work and thus also an expression of gratitude to the founder and the publishers who succeeded him. At the same time, it is the most objective documentation of the history of the publishing house, registering the production by individual titles since the founding year. The proposal to include as complete a catalogue as possible of Springer-Verlag publications since its founding dates back to 1978. At first, the idea met with skepticism, because Julius Springer had published numerous brochures in the first years of his activity, which were intended only for the day. Many of them are already missing in the oldest of the preserved publishing catalogues from the 1880s. Some were not even listed in the Leipzig measurement catalogues. In individual cases this may au.