Griebens Reise-Bibliothek

Cover of Die Vulkanische Eifel, 1889

Cover of Schwarzwald, 1890

Cover of Rhein-Reise, 1900

Cover of Norway and Copenhagen, 1910

Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (est.1853) was a series of German-language travel guide books to Europe, founded by Theobald Grieben of Berlin.^[1] Some titles occasionally appeared in English or French language editions. Compared with its competitor Baedeker, Griebens was "cheaper and less detailed."^[2] A 1914 British reviewer judged it "informative and not bulky, going easily into the coat pocket."^[3] Readers included Thomas Wolfe.^[4] In 1863 publisher Albert Goldschmidt bought the series and continued it;^[5] in the 1890s the Goldschmidt office sat on Köthener Straße in Berlin. By the 1950s Griebens was issued by Jürgen E. Rohde of Munich.^[6]

List of titles by geographic coverage

Austria

• Wien (in German). 1903.

Belgium

• H. T. Luks (1891). Belgien und Holland. Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (in German) 22 (5th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt – via Google Books. + index
• Belgium. Grieben's Guide Books 141. London: Williams & Norgate. 1910. (in English) + index
• Brussel (in German).

Czech Republic

• Prag (in German) (5th ed.). 1877.

Great Britain

• London (in German).

France

• Paris (in German). 1886.
  • 1913 ed.

Germany

• Berlin. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1920 – via Internet Archive.
  • Berlin. (in English)
• Berlin, Potsdam und Umgebungen (in German) 6 (37th ed.). 1891.
• Bremen (in German).
• Breslau (in German).
• Deutschland (in German).
• Dresden (in German) (2nd ed.). 1857.
  • Dresden. 1910. (in English)
• Dusseldorf (in German).
• Frankfurt a.M. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1912.
• Freiburg i. Br. (in German).
• Hamburg. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1912.
• Hannover und Hildesheim. Griebens Reiseführer (in German) 151 (2nd ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1914 – via HathiTrust.
• Heidelberg und das Neckerthal (in German).
• Kiel (in German).
• Koln und Dusseldorf (in German).
• Leipzig (in German).
• Munchen (in German) (11th ed.). 1867.
  • Munich and Environs. Grieben's Travelling-Bibliothek (10th ed.). Berlin. 1866. (in English)
• Nürnberg (in German) (3rd ed.). 1873.
  • Nuremberg and Rothenburg on the Tauber. 1911. (in English)
• Potsdam (in German).
• Kleiner Führer für die Rhein-Reise von Köln bis Frankfurt. Griebens Reisebücher (in German) 75. Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1900 – via Google Books.
• Strassburg (in German). 1914.
• Stuttgart (in German).
• Die Vulkanische Eifel (in German) 32. 1889 – via Europeana.

Greece

• Athen und Umgebung. Grieben Reisefuhrer. 1937.

Italy

• W. Schultz-Riesenberg (1911). Neapel und Capri. Griebens Reiseführer (in German) 101.
• Ober-Italien und Florenz (in German).
• Die Oberitalienischen Seen. Grieben Reiseführer (in German) 15. 1907. + index

Poland

• Die Grafschaft Glatz. Griebens Reiseführer (in German) 147. 1920 – via Europeana.

Russia

• Saint-Petersbourg (in French) 27 (11th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1887 – via HathiTrust.

Scandinavia

• Finland (in German).
• Kopenhagen (in German).
• Schweden, Norwegen und Danemark (in German).
• Stockholm (in German). 1886.

Switzerland

• Theodor Stromer, ed. (1891). Die Schweiz. Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (in German) 23 (15th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. + index
  • Theodor Stromer, ed. (1895). Die Schweiz. Griebens Reisebücher (in German) 23 (17th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. + index
  • 1907 ed.
• Switzerland. Grieben's Guide Books 123 (2nd ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1912. (in English) + index

United States of America

• Eugen Comely (1893). New York und Chicago (in German) 86. OCLC 258230238.

References

1. "Carl Leopold Eberhard Theobald Grieben", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 1966 – via Deutsche Biographie
2. Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History 33. JSTOR 261119.
3. "Among the Books", T.P.'s Weekly (London), June 26, 1914
4. Ted Mitchell, ed. (2006). Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography. Pegasus. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-933648-10-1.
5. Georg Jäger (2001). "Sachbuch- und Ratgeberverlag (Publishers of Nonfiction and Guidebooks)". Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Frankfurt: Buchhandler-Vereinigung GmbH. ISBN 978-3-11-095617-7.
6. Johannes Paulmann (2007). "Representation without Emulation: German Cultural Diplomacy in Search of Integration and Self-Assurance during the Adenauer Era". German Politics & Society 25. JSTOR 23742817.

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