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F. A. Brockhaus AG was a German book publishing firm founded by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. It was best known for its eponymous encyclopedia and other renown bedrock brands for lexical functional grammar such as Duden , Meyers or the Harenberg Lexikon-Verlag and Kunstverlag Weingarten .
In the years 1842–1848, Heinrich Brockhaus was member of the Saxon second chamber, as representative for Leipzig, was made honorary citizen of that city in 1872, and died there on 15 November 1874. [1] His firm continues under the name F. A. Brockhaus AG in his honor. He is also the eponym of 27765 Brockhaus, a main-belt asteroid discovered ...
In February 2008, F. A. Brockhaus announced the changeover to an online encyclopedia and the discontinuation of the printed editions. The rights to the Brockhaus trademark were purchased by Arvato services, a subsidiary of the Bertelsmann media group. After more than 200 years, the distribution of the Brockhaus encyclopedia ceased completely in ...
Der kleine Brockhaus from 1949. Der kleine Brockhaus (English: The little Brockhaus) is the name of a series of encyclopedias published by F. A. Brockhaus.It was published as an alternative to the Großer Brockhaus (big Brockhaus) which are the main encyclopedia published by the same company.
In 1889, the owner of one of the St. Petersburg printing houses, Ilya Abramovich Efron , at the initiative of Semyon Afanasyevich Vengerov, entered into an agreement with the German publishing house F. A. Brockhaus for the translation into Russian of the large German encyclopaedic dictionary Brockhaus Enzyklopädie into Russian as ...
Brockhaus may refer to: Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823), German encyclopedia publisher and editor F.A. Brockhaus AG, his publishing firm; Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, an encyclopedia published by the firm; 27765 Brockhaus, an asteroid named for him; Hermann Brockhaus (1806–1877), German orientalist
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Heinrich Brockhaus married Pauline Campe (1808–86) in Leipzig in 1827. Their five recorded children included Eduard Brockhaus and Rudolf Brockhaus, who between them took over the publishing house after their father's death, and Helene who in 1855 married Heinrich Vieweg [ de ] , another publisher.