Thieme Medical Publishers

Founded	1886 (1886)
Founder(s)	Georg Thieme
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Germany
Number of locations	New York, Beijing, Delhi
Industry	STM Books · Publishing
Website	Thieme.com

Thieme Medical Publishers or Thiemeis an international medical and science publisher serving health professionals and students for more than 120 years.

Thieme produces professional journals, textbooks, atlases, monographs and reference books to online and offline electronic media in both German and English covering a variety of medical specialties, including neurosurgery, orthopaedics, radiology, anatomy, chemistry, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, audiology and speech language pathology and complementary and alternative medicine.

Thieme has more than 1,000 employees and maintain offices in seven cities worldwide, including New York, Beijing, Delhi, Stuttgart and three other cities in Germany.

Contents 1 History 2 Electronic Products 3 See also 4 Footnotes 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

Thieme Publishing Group was founded in 1886, by Georg Thieme in Leipzig, Germany when he was 26 years old. Thieme remains privately-held and family-owned today.

The company received some early success in 1896 by publishing Wilhelm Röntgen’s famous picture of his wife’s hand in what is still one of Thieme’s and Germany’s oldest journals, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.

In 1919 Georg Thieme partnered with Bruno Hauff, a young publisher from Leipzig. When Thieme died in 1925, ownership of the company passed to Bruno Hauff. Members of the Hauff family have been the proprietors of the business ever since.

In 1946 – two years after Thieme had been bombed and forced to close completely during World War II – the Allies relocated the company from Leipzig in the eastern sector to Stuttgart in the west where it was provided with a license to publish and distribute journals, brochures and books.

Guenther Hauff, son of Bruno, acquired Stratton International Medical Book of New York in 1979, and several years later, in 1984, the two companies merged to become Thieme Medical Publishers New York.

More recently, in 2007, Thieme opened an office in Delhi.

[edit] Electronic Products

Thieme released Winking Skull in January 2008 as a free anatomy study aid for students, faculty, and other individuals interested in health sciences. The website hosts the anatomic illustrations of award-winning artists Karl Wesker and Markus Voll who spent eight years carefully creating each image using a digital drawing board.

The drawings originally appeared in a three topic-specific Thieme anatomy atlases authored by Michael Schuenke, Erik Schulte, and Udo Schumacher – General Anatomy and Musculoskeletal System (2005); Neck and Internal Organs (2006); and Head and Neuroanatomy^[1] – and a comprehensive single volume, Atlas of Anatomy, edited by Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson, and Lawrence M. Ross.

Thieme’s other electronic products include the Thieme Teaching Assistant, a web-based presentation tool using images from Atlas of Anatomy and the Thieme eBook Library, an online reference library of Thieme books.

[edit] See also

• Winking Skull

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Ebrall, PS The best of books for 2005: with critical self reflection Chiropr J Aust. 2005; 35 pg. 147–60

[edit] References

• "Thieme History Timeline". Thieme Medical Publishers. http://www.thieme.com/about/timeline.html. Retrieved July 2 2009. 
• "About Thieme". Thieme Medical Publishers. http://www.thieme.com/about/about.html. Retrieved July 2 2009. 
• "Thieme Medical Publishers Selects Cadmus' ArticleWorks(TM) for On-Demand Delivery of Journal Content". ThomasNet Industrial NewsRoom. http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/477509. Retrieved July 2 2009. 

[edit] External links

• Thieme Homepage
• Thieme Homepage(German)
• Thieme eJournals Homepage