Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne

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Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Ges.m.b.H.
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Founded 1868 (1868)
Founder Ferdinand Berger
Country of origin Austria
Headquarters location Horn
Key people Elisabeth Hübl
Publication types books, e-books, scientific journals.
No. of employees 250
Official website www.verlag-berger.at

Ferdinand Berger is an Austrian publisher and printing company based in Horn, Lower Austria.

Horn, Austria Place in Lower Austria, Austria

Horn is a small town in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria, Austria and the capital of the district of the same name.

Lower Austria State of Austria

Lower Austria is the northeasternmost of the nine states of Austria. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been St. Polten, the most recently designated capital in Austria. Previously, Lower Austria's capital was Vienna, even though Vienna has not officially been part of Lower Austria since 1921. With a land area of 19,186 km2 (7,408 sq mi) and a population of 1.612 million people, Lower Austria is the country's largest state; it is the second most populous after the federal state of Vienna. Other main cities are Amstetten, Krems an der Donau and Wiener Neustadt.

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History

The publishing house and printing company was founded in 1868, initially limited to local newspapers and printing. From 1920, the publication list expanded into literature, history, fiction and poetry. Today, the publisher Ferdinand Berger publishes across Europe and employs about 250 people. [1]

In addition to publishing various authors, the company is also publisher for the Austrian Federal Monuments Office, as the Austrian publisher of the encyclopedic manual of artistic monuments, the Dehio-Handbuch first established by Georg Dehio.

Georg Dehio German art historian

Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio, was a Baltic German art historian.

Authors

Over the decades, the company have published numerous authors, including

Felix Ermacora was the leading human rights expert of Austria and a member of the Austrian People's Party.

Publications

The company publish books, e-books and several academic journals, both German and English language. The former include Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft (Communications of the Anthropological Society of Germany) and the latter include Phyton - Annales Rai Botanicae and Sydowia . [2]

Sydowia is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, systematics, evolution, structure, development, ecology, pathology in plants, animals, and humans, and biotechnological applications. It is published by Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne. Its editor in chief is Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber.

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