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Akademie Verlag Book Archive
Discover an important part of German scientific history.
De Gruyter is digitizing the complete book archive of Akademie Verlag, the largest academic publisher of East Germany (the former GDR). By 2025, more than 10,000 books in the humanities and sciences, some of them out of print, will be available electronically for the first time.
More than 10,000 titles from four centuries of research in East Germany
Well-known titles, series, and editions published by Akademie Verlag include Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe MEGA, Sammlung Tusculum and Heine-Säkularausgabe, all of which are already part of the fully digital De Gruyter Book Archive.
Renowned series such as Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, Literatur und Gesellschaft and Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin are now digitized for the first time.
The digitized archive not only makes available important Akademie Verlag titles from 1946 to 1990 and the titles of older imprints but also provides unique insight into research and publishing in a divided Germany. Along with the De Gruyter Book Archive, the Akademie Verlag Book Archive offers unprecedented access to an important part of German scientific history – all on one platform.
Titles, formats, and purchase options
All books are carefully digitized and optimized to deliver high-quality eBooks:
- PDF format, indexed and full-text searchable
- DOIs and MARC records for all titles
- DRM-free
- Available as individual titles, P&C, or subject packages
All titles are also available as hardcover PoDs. Title lists are available on request from your regional sales contact.
The archive will be completed by 2025 but is available for purchase now. Holdings will be continuously updated with newly digitized titles and corresponding metadata.
Akademie Verlag and De Gruyter
Akademie Verlag was founded in East Berlin in 1946 and published research literature in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The focus was on the works of the internationally renowned Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (DAdW; German Academy of Sciences), the main shareholder of Akademie Verlag, as well as on publications by other East German academies. There were also collaborations with West German research institutions, for example with the Leibniz-Archiv in Hanover.
The book archive of Akademie Verlag was last owned by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), the successor of the DAdW.
The BBAW donated the archive to De Gruyter in 2020.De Gruyter had already acquired and digitized another part of the publishing program of Akademie Verlag, which had been split up in 1997, together with the program of Oldenbourg Verlag in 2013.
A look into the archive
Reviewing the Akademie Verlag archive
Project manager Moritz Engl with a copy of Mitteilungen aus der Würzburger Papyrussammlung
The archive contains more than 15,000 titles from four centuries of research in East Germany.
Bakajew/Kostina/Jarowizki:
Algorithmische Modellierung ökonomischer Probleme
Jahrbuch für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte
Kirchenväter-Commission der Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte
Volumes of Lehrbuch der praktischen Theologie
Achelis: Lehrbuch der praktischen Theologie
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