| Bibliographisches Institut | |
| Parent: | Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG |
| Founded: | 1826 |
| Founder: | Joseph Meyer |
| Defunct: | 2022 |
| Successor: | Cornelsen Verlag[1] |
| Country: | Germany |
| Headquarters: | Leipzig |
| Publications: | Meyers Lexikon, Brehms Tierleben, Duden |
The German publishing company German: Bibliographisches Institut was founded 1826 in Gotha by Joseph Meyer, moved 1828 to Hildburghausen and 1874 to Leipzig. Its production over the years includes such well-known titles as German: Meyers Lexikon (encyclopaedias, since 1839, see German: [[Meyers Konversations-Lexikon]]), German: Brehms Tierleben (animal life, 1863–1869, 4th ed. 1911–1918); German: [[Duden]] (dictionaries on every aspect of the language, since 1880); German: [[Meyers Reisebücher]] (guide books, 1862–1936); German: Meyers Klassiker (home and foreign literature); atlases (German: Meyers Handatlas, German: Der Grosse Weltatlas), newspapers (Koloniale Zeitschrift) and others.
In 2022, the Bibliographisches Institut was fully integrated into Cornelsen Verlag and thus ceased to exist.[2]
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 German: [[Volkseigener Betrieb]]. The shareholders moved the company to Mannheim in West Germany in 1953 (German: Bibliographisches Institut AG). Titles like German: Meyers (Enzyklopädisches) Lexikon, German: Der Große Duden, German: Schlag Nach! and German: Meyers Großer Weltatlas appeared again. In Leipzig remained the German: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, operating in the same field, publishing German: Meyers Neues Lexikon", German: Duden etc.
In 1984 German: Bibliographisches Institut AG amalgamated with its biggest competitor in the market of reference works, German: F. A. [[Brockhaus Enzyklopädie|Brockhaus]] 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.