{{Short description|Danish publishing house}} {{other uses|Gyldendal (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox company | name = Gyldendal | logo = Forlaget Gyldendal logo.jpg | logo_size = 250px | type = Public | traded_as = {{OMX|CSE3281|GYLD A}}, {{OMXb|CSE3283|GYLD B}} | foundation = 1770 | founder = Søren Gyldendal | location_city = Copenhagen | location_country = Denmark | location = | locations = | area_served = | key_people = Morten Hesseldahl <br/><small>(CEO)</small><br/> Poul Erik Tøjner<br/><small>(Chairman)</small> | industry = Publishing | products = Books | services = | revenue = Net 863 million DKK ''(2017)''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ir.gyldendal.dk/da/key-figures|title=5 års hovedtal for Gyldendal A/S|language=da |access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref> | operating_income = 44,8 million DKK (2017) | net_income = | owner = | num_employees = 448 (as of 2017) | parent = | divisions = | subsid = Rosinante & Co. A/S<br>Publizon A/S<br>EyeJustRead<br>Forlaget Systime A/S | slogan = | homepage = {{URL|http://www.gyldendal.dk}} | footnotes = | intl = }} thumb|right|Gyldendal Publishing House, Klareboderne 3, in Copenhagen. '''Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S''', usually referred to simply as '''Gyldendal''' ({{IPA|da|ˈkylˀn̩ˌtɛˀl}}), 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, non-fiction and dictionaries. Prior to 1925, it was also the leading publishing house in Norway, and it published all of Henrik Ibsen's works. In 1925, a Norwegian publishing house named Gyldendal Norsk Forlag ("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 ({{OMX|CSE3281|GYLD A}}, {{OMXb|CSE3283|GYLD B}}).
Gyldendal stopped the print version of their encyclopedia in 2006, focusing instead on selling paid subscriptions for its online encyclopedia, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi. By 2008 it had decided that it needed another approach to support that online site.<ref name="NYT-16Mar08">Noam Cohen, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/weekinreview/16ncohen.html "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias"], ''The New York Times'', 16 March 2008</ref> In February 2009 Gyldendal began publishing the encyclopedia online using a subscription-free advertising model.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Om_sitet/Om_den_store_danske|title=Om Den Store Danske|publisher=Gyldendal|access-date=21 February 2015|trans-title=About the Great Danish|language=da}}{{Self-published source|date=February 2015}}</ref> In 2017 the online encyclopedia was closed and in 2020 its contents were included in ''Lex'', another online encyclopedia.
== Subsidiaries == Subsidiaries include: * Rosinante * Høst & Søn * Samlerens Forlag * Forlaget Forum * Forlaget Fremad * Hans Reitzels Forlag * {{Ill|Munksgaard|da|Munksgaards Forlag|no|Munksgaards Forlag|is|Levin og Munksgaard}} * Academica * Systime * Exlibris * Gyldendals Bogklubber
==See also== * Wivels Forlag
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|www.gyldendal.dk}} *{{cvr|cvr=58200115|name='Gyldendalske Boghandel. Nordisk Forlag'. Aktieselskab}}
{{Authority control}} Category:Danish companies established in 1770 Category:Book publishing companies of Denmark Category:Publishing companies established in the 1770s Category:Mass media companies based in Copenhagen Category:Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality Category:Companies listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen