{{Short description|German scientific publishing company}} {{Infobox publisher | name = Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung | image = | caption = | parent = [[E. Schweizerbart]] | status = active | traded_as = | predecessor = | founded = 1790 | founder = Friedrich Nicolovius | successor = | country = [[Germany]] | headquarters = [[Stuttgart]] | distribution = worldwide | keypeople = | publications = | topics = [[Botany]], [[Earth Science]]s, [[Environmental Science]]s. | genre = scientific | imprints = | revenue = | owner = | numemployees = | url = {{official URL|schweizerbart.de}} }}

'''Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung''' ({{langx|en|Brothers Borntraeger Publishing House}}) is a scientific [[publishing]] company covering the fields of [[botany]], [[Earth science]], and [[environmental science]].

==History== The publishing house was established in 1790, in [[Königsberg]] by (Matthias) Friedrich Nicolovius (1768-1836). It was taken over in 1818, by the Borntraeger brothers. Their authors included [[Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel]] and [[Immanuel Kant]]. In 1867, they purchased Verlagsbuchhandlung from Edward Eggers, moved to Berlin and shifted the emphasis to natural sciences. Carl Robert Thost, one of the 34 founding members of the German Palaeontological Society ("[http://www.palges.de Paläontologische Gesellschaft]"), strengthened the publisher's board in 1895.<ref>{{cite journal|date=March 1914|title=Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1914|url=https://link.springer.com/journal/12542/1/1/page/1|journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift|volume=1|issue=1}}</ref>

The publisher is notable before WWII for its monographs, e.g. Köppen and Wegeners seminal work about the [http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783443010881/Koppen_Wegener_Die_Klimate_der_geologis Climates of the past (1923)], which is still relevant to climate science today.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

After [[World War II]], they relocated to [[Nikolassee]]. In 1968, the owners of [[E. Schweizerbart]] took over the publisher, and moved to [[Stuttgart]] where they cooperate with the sister publisher but the publishers, whilst affiliated, remain formally independent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schweizerbart.de/home/about |title=About Schweizerbart and Gebr. Borntraeger and J. Cramer &mdash; Schweizerbart science publishers |publisher=Schweizebart Science Publishers |accessdate=25 March 2015}}</ref>

In 1986, the company acquired the botanical publisher [[J. Cramer]] (whose titles include ''[http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/list/series/dissbot Dissertationes Botanicae]'' and ''[http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/list/series/bibl_phycol Bibliotheca Phycologica]''), which continues to operate as an imprint in the Gebr. Borntraeger stable.

==The Geological Guide collection==

The publisher is noted for the collection of Geological Guides ('''''Sammlung geologischer Führer''''') whose first 36 volumes were published before World War II from 1897 to 1939. Volume 37 was published as the first post-war volume in 1958 and by 2013 the series had reached volume 138.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.schweizerbart.de/series/sgeolf |title=Sammlung Geologischer Führer |journal=Sammlung Geologischer Führer |volume=37&ndash;97|language=de| issn=0343-737X}}</ref>

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== Literature == * {{cite book |title=Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin und Leipzig 1790–1930 |publisher=[[Gebr. Borntraeger]] |location=Berlin |year=1930}} * {{cite book |title=200 Jahre Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, Stuttgart: ein Jubiläum |publisher=Gebr. Borntraeger |year=1990}}

== External links == * {{official website|http://www.schweizerbart.de/home/start|Official website with Schweizerbart}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Gebruder}} [[Category:German companies established in 1790]] [[Category:Companies based in Stuttgart]] [[Category:Book publishing companies of Germany]] [[Category:Publishing companies of Germany]] [[Category:Publishing companies established in 1790]] [[Category:1790 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:1790s establishments in Prussia]]

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