Bibliographisches Institut
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In 2022, the Bibliographisches Institut was fully integrated into Cornelsen Verlag and thus ceased to exist.
The buildings of the company were completely destroyed by the bombing raids on Leipzig 1943/1944; the company itself expropriated by the communist regime of East Germany in 1946 and turned into a '. The shareholders moved the company to Mannheim in West Germany in 1953 (). Titles like ', ', ' and ' appeared again. In Leipzig remained the , operating in the same field, publishing '", '''' etc.
In 1984 amalgamated with its biggest competitor in the market of reference works, of Wiesbaden to Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG, having their seat in Mannheim. After the German reunification the company regained its former properties in Leipzig in 1991. Provided by Wikipedia