K. G. Saur Verlag
| Parent company | Walter de Gruyter |
|---|---|
| Founder | Karl-Otto Saur |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Munich |
| Publication types | books |
| Nonfiction topics | library reference |
| Official website | www |
K. G. Saur Verlag is a German publisher based in Munich that specializes in reference information for libraries. The publishing house, founded in 1949 by Karl-Otto Saur, Chief of Armament Staff of wartime Nazi Germany as Dokumentation Saur,[1] only became economically successful, now named K. G. Saur Verlag, from 1966 under his son Klaus Gerhard Saur.
In 1987, K. G. Saur was acquired by Reed International. Its British holdings were merged into the separate company Bowker-Saur. In 2000, Reed Elsevier sold K. G. Saur to the Gale Group, a unit of the Thomson Corporation.[2] Walter de Gruyter acquired it in 2006.[3][4]
Publications
Among the publications are the German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) , the Bibliotheca Teubneriana , and the World Biographical Information System, which contains biographical information on almost five million people, from the 4th millennium BC to the present day. In 1981, the comprehensive catalog of German-language publications , a retrospective national bibliography for the German-speaking world , was completed. The library science series and works are continued under the De Gruyter Saur imprint .
References
- ^ "Saur, Karl Otto". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 6 August 2025. Click "Deutsch" for text in English.
- ^ The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition – Reed Elsevier Archived 30 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Chronologie des K. G. Saur Verlags" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "De Gruyter Saur". De Gruyter Brill. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
Further reading
- S&P Global Market Intelligence (5 March 2014). "K G Saur Verlag: Private Company Information". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- "K. G. Saur Imprint". Walter de Gruyter (in German). 30 December 2008. Archived from the original on 30 December 2008.
External links
- Recent books published under the De Gruyter Saur imprint at Walter de Gruyter