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
editAustria
edit- Bayr, Hochland, Salzburg, Salzkammergut. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1920.
- Wien. Griebens reiseführer.bd.68 (in German). 1903.
Belgium
edit- H. T. Luks (1891). Belgien und Holland. Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (in German). Vol. 22 (5th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt – via Google Books. index
- Belgium. Grieben's Guide Books. Vol. 141. London: Williams & Norgate. 1910. (in English) index
- Brussel (in German).
Czech Republic
edit- Prag. Grieben's Reise-Bibliothek ;no. 26 (in German) (5th ed.). A. Goldschmidt. 1877.
Great Britain
edit- London (in German).
France
editGermany
edit- Berlin. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1920 – via Internet Archive.
- Berlin. (in English)
- Berlin, Potsdam und Umgebungen. Grieben's Reise-Bibliothek.Bd. 6 (in German). Vol. 6 (37th ed.). A. Goldschmidt. 1891.
- Bremen (in German).
- Breslau (in German).
- Cassel und Wilhelmshöhe. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1919.
- Deutschland (in German).
- Dresden. Grieben's Reise-Bibliothek ;4 (in German) (2nd ed.). T. Grieben. 1857.
- Dresden. Grieben's guide books,v. 128. A. Goldschmidt; Williams & Norgate. 1910. (in English)
- Düsseldorf (in German).
- Frankfurt a.M. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). A. Goldschmidt. 1912.
- Freiburg i. Br (in German).
- Hamburg. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). A. Goldschmidt. 1912.
- Hannover und Hildesheim. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). Vol. 151 (2nd ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1914 – via HathiTrust.
- Heidelberg und Neckerthal. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1918.
- Kiel. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1913.
- Köln und Düsseldorf (in German).
- Leipzig (in German).
- Mecklenburg. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1919.
- München. Grieben's Reise-Bibliothek,No. 19 (in German) (11th ed.). A. Goldschmidt. 1867.
- Munich and Environs. Grieben's Travelling-Bibliothek (10th ed.). Berlin. 1866.
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- Munich and Environs. Grieben's Travelling-Bibliothek (10th ed.). Berlin. 1866.
- Nürnberg (in German) (3rd ed.). 1873.
- Nuremberg and Rothenburg on the Tauber. Grieben's guide books,v. 153. A. Goldschmidt; Williams & Norgate. 1911. (in English)
- Potsdam (in German).
- Kleiner Führer für die Rhein-Reise von Köln bis Frankfurt. Griebens Reisebücher (in German). Vol. 75. Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1900 – via Google Books.
- Die Sächsische Schweiz mit dem angrenzenden Böhmischen Mittelgebirge. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). Vol. 16. Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1921.
- Strassburg (in German). 1914.
- Stuttgart (in German).
- Thüringen. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1919.
- Die Vulkanische Eifel (in German). Vol. 32. 1889 – via Europeana.
Greece
edit- Athen und Umgebung. Grieben Reisefuhrer. 1937.
Italy
edit- W. Schultz-Riesenberg (1911). Neapel und Capri. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). Vol. 101.
- Ober-Italien und Florenz (in German).
- Schultz-Riesenberg, W. (1907). Die Oberitalienischen Seen. Grieben Reiseführer (in German). Vol. 15. index
Netherlands
editPoland
edit- Die Grafschaft Glatz. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). Vol. 147. 1920 – via Europeana.
Russia
edit- Saint-Petersbourg. Bibliothèque des voyageurs de Grieben ;27 (in French). Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1887 – via HathiTrust.
Scandinavia
edit- Finland (in German).
- Kopenhagen (in German).
- Schweden, Norwegen und Danemark (in German).
- Stockholm (in German). 1886.
Switzerland
edit- Theodor Stromer, ed. (1891). Die Schweiz. Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (in German). Vol. 23 (15th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. index
- Theodor Stromer, ed. (1895). Die Schweiz. Griebens Reisebücher (in German). Vol. 23 (17th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. index
- 1907 ed.
- Switzerland. Grieben's Guide Books. Vol. 123 (2nd ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt. 1912. (in English) index
United States
editReferences
edit- ^ "Carl Leopold Eberhard Theobald Grieben", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 1966 – via Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History. 33 (3): 323–340. JSTOR 261119.
- ^ O'Connor, Thomas Power; Jackson, Holbrook (June 26, 1914), "Among the Books", T.P.'s Weekly, London
- ^ Ted Mitchell, ed. (2006). Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography. Pegasus. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-933648-10-1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Johannes Paulmann (2007). "Representation without Emulation: German Cultural Diplomacy in Search of Integration and Self-Assurance during the Adenauer Era". German Politics & Society. 25 (2 (83)): 168–200. doi:10.3167/gps.2007.250210. JSTOR 23742817.
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