Karger Publishers is an academic publisher

Academic publishing

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 of scientific

Scientific journal

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 and medical journal

Medical journal

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s and books. The current CEO is Gabriella Karger.

History

The company was founded in 1890 in Berlin

Berlin

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 by Samuel Karger, who remained at the helm of the company until his death in 1959. Its first medical journal

Medical journal

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, Dermatologische Zeitschrift

Dermatology (journal)

Dermatology is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Karger Publishers. It was established in 1893 as the Dermatologische Zeitschrift and was renamed Dermatologica in 1939. It obtained its current name in 1993. The founding editor-in-chief was Oskar Lassar. Other notable editors were Wilhelm...

(later: Dermatologica, now: Dermatology) was established in 1893. The company published works from well-known scientists such as Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

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. Because of political pressure from the Nazi

Nazism

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 regime, the company was relocated to Basel

Basel

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, Switzerland, in 1937 and lost all German authors and editors. This led to a more international focus and most journal titles were changed from German to Latin and articles were now published in either German

German language

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, English

English language

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, French

French language

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, or Italian

Italian language

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. The company currently publishes over 80 journals.