| Founded | 1735 |
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| Founder | Abraham Vandenhoeck [de] |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Göttingen |
| Publication types | Scholarly books and journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Theology and Religion, History, Ancient History, Philosophy and Philology |
| Imprints | V&R unipress |
| Official website | www |
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (V&R) is ascholarly publishing house based inGöttingen,Germany. It was founded in 1735 byAbraham Vandenhoeck [de] (1700–1750) in connection with the establishment of theGeorg-August-Universität in the same city.
After Abraham Vandenhoeck's death in 1750, his English-born widow,Anna Vandenhoeck, née Parry (d. 1787) successfully continued the business together with Carl Friedrich Günther Ruprecht (born 1730), who had entered the business as an eighteen-year-old apprentice in 1748. At the death of Anna Vandenhoeck in 1787, Ruprecht took over the business which he led until his death in 1816, when he was succeeded by his 25-year-old son Carl August Adolf Ruprecht (1791-1861). The management of the company remained in the hands of the Ruprecht family for seven generations.
The traditional core areas of the publications of V&R are Theology and Religion, History, Ancient History, Philosophy and Philology. Current production also includesschoolbooks and non-academic publications.Günther Ruprecht was the leader of the publishing house from 1929.
In 1935, theGöttingen Academy of Sciences gave Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht responsibility for its publications. These include theAbhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, theNachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, and theGöttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, the last of which is the oldest academic journal in the German-language area.
During theNazi era, V&R published the journalJunge Kirche ("Young Church"), the mouthpiece of the anti-Nazi Protestant movementConfessing Church. The periodical was shut down by the authorities in 1941; for the rest ofWorld War II, the company was forced to limit its publishing to philology, natural sciences and text books for school teaching. After the war, it returned to its earlier ambitions to be a comprehensive academic press.
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