Alfred Kröner Verlag

The history page describes the founding and early development of the Alfred Kröner Verlag. It mentions that in 1898 Adolf Kröner handed over to his son Alfred the architecture publisher Arnold Bergsträsser (Darmstadt) and the technical publishing arm of the Cotta'sche Buchhandlung. Alfred Kröner expanded this base by acquiring significant engineering works and in 1903 acquired the Emil Strauß Verlag (Bonn), which set a new direction for the Alfred Kröner Verlag, based in Stuttgart from 1904. With the takeover of the Strauß Verlag, Alfred Kröner became the publisher of authors such as Wilhelm Wundt, David Friedrich Strauß, and Emile Durkheim. His interest in the then little-known works of Friedrich Nietzsche led him to Leipzig. In 1910, the first volume of Nietzsche's Philologia 1866–1877 appeared, the first volume of the so-called Großoktavausgabe, a 20-volume Nietzsche edition completed in 1926. Kröner also took over the 'Volksausgabe' from the Emil Strauß Verlag, which had published popular works such as Ernst Haeckel's Welträtsel and Charles Darwin's Abstammungslehre. Kröner replaced the cheap brochures with blue cloth volumes in small octavo, continuing them as Kröners Taschenausgabe.

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