Schwabe (publisher)

Schwabe or Schwabe AG in Basel is the oldest printing and publishing house in the world. The company is based on the Offizin founded by Johannes Petri after 1488 and has since been an independent Swiss family business.

Schwabe AG
Founded1488
FounderJohannes Petri
Country of originSwitzerland
Headquarters locationBasel
Publication typesBooks and magazines
Nonfiction topicshumanities and medicine
ImprintsBergli Books
Official websitewww.schwabe.ch

Schwabe publishes about 60 books and magazines annually, focusing on humanities and medicine. Academic proofreading and cooperation with university institutions and academies ensure the scientific quality of individual titles, large projects (e.g. the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, the History of Philosophy, the Augustine Encyclopaedia) and more than 20 ongoing series. The company employs around 160 people working also in

  • Schweizerische Ärzteverlag (EMH)
  • Johannes Petri, founded in 2010
  • printing shop in Muttenz
  • computer science and bookshop "Das Narrenschiff".

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Article contains translated text from Schwabe AG on German Wikipedia retrieved on 25 February 2017.


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