K. G. Saur Verlag

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K. G. Saur Verlag
Parent company Walter de Gruyter
Founder Klaus Gerhard Saur  [ de ]
Country of origin Germany
Headquarters location Munich
Publication types books
Nonfiction topicslibrary reference
Official website www.degruyter.com

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 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  [ de ].

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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]

References

  1. ↑ "Saur, Karl Otto". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 6 August 2025. Click "Deutsch" for text in English.
  2. ↑ The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition – Reed Elsevier Archived 30 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Chronologie des K. G. Saur Verlags" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2022.

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