Cornelsen Verlag
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Franz Cornelsen |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Berlin |
| Distribution | Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
| Key people | Executive board:
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| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | School and educational books |
| Official website | www |
Cornelsen Verlag (German pronunciation: [kɔʁˈneːlzn̩]) is a German textbook publisher that offers educational media in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[1]
Initially focused on the English language, the publishing house, founded in Berlin in 1946, specialized in the development of textbooks for use in primary and secondary schools. It now offers learning and teaching materials in a variety of media. Since the dissolution of the Bibliographisches Institut GmbH in 2022, it has also been the publisher of the Duden.[2]
It is a company of the Cornelsen Group[3] and trades under the name Cornelsen Verlag GmbH.
The Cornelsen Verlag was founded in Berlin in 1946 by Franz Cornelsen and his wife Hildegard, the author of the English textbook Peter Pim and Billy Ball. Since the 1970s, it has secured its market position primarily by taking over competitors (Hirschgraben, W. Girardet, Schwann-Bagel, Kamp and most recently Oldenbourg). After the German reunification, in the spring of 1991, Cornelsen also took over the East German publisher Volk und Wissen Verlag, which was founded in Berlin and Leipzig in 1945 and in which almost all textbooks used in the former German Democratic Republic were published. In 2011, Cornelsen Verlag was merged with other leading textbook publishers to form Cornelsen Schulverlage GmbH. The publishing program includes 23,000 titles.[4]
The company belongs to Franz Cornelsen Bildungsholding GmbH & Co. KG.
