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G. J. Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung
A historic German publishing house founded in Leipzig in 1785, it helped bring major writers of the late Enlightenment and Classical era to readers and later became part of Walter de Gruyter.
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Sammlung Göschen: Verzeichnis der bis jetzt erschienen Bände
by G. J. Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung
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Founded by Georg Joachim Göschen in Leipzig in 1785, this publishing house quickly became closely linked with some of the biggest names in German literature. Early on, it published works by writers such as Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Christoph Martin Wieland.
The press also built its own printing operation in the 1790s, reflecting Göschen's strong interest in book production as well as publishing. After the founder's death in 1828, the business passed to his family and was later sold to the Cotta publishing house in 1838.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the name lived on through the widely known Sammlung Göschen series of compact scholarly books. The firm eventually lost its independence and was absorbed into the publishing group that became Walter de Gruyter in the years around 1918–1919.