F. A. Brockhaus AG

{{short description|German book publishing firm}}

{{hatnote|'F. A. Brockhaus' redirects here. For its founder, see Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus.}}__NOTOC__

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| name = F. A. Brockhaus AG

| image = F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, 1899.jpg

| image_caption = Company building in 1899

| type = Publishing company

| industry = Book publishing

| fate = * Merger with Bibliographisches Institut AG to Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG (1984)

• Divestiture (break-up) through asset-stripping (2009)

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| successor = Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG

| founded = 1805 in Amsterdam

| founder = Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

| defunct = {{End date|2009|03|20}}

| hq_location_city = Munich

| hq_location_country = Germany

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F. A. Brockhaus AG was a German book publishing firm founded by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus. It was best known for its eponymous encyclopedia and other renown bedrock brands for lexical functional grammar such as Duden, Meyers or the Harenberg Lexikon-Verlag and Kunstverlag Weingarten. Its legal successor is the company Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG.

The publicly traded company was eventually divested through fundamental asset-stripping after rights of the renown Brockhaus brand, including rights for its online presence and Meyers Online, were sold off to Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato, following a stock take-over through majority stakeholder Cornelsen Verlag. The remaining book publisher and legal successor, which has completely withdrawn from any lexical functional grammar or reference-works business fields, now operates under the name Bibliographisches Institut GmbH.[https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-interview_zum_brockhaus-verkauf.297107.html Interview zum Brockhaus-Verkauf: Wir ziehen uns komplett aus dem Geschäftsfeld „lexikalisches Nachschlagen“ zurück
(engl. Interview on the Brockhaus sale: We are withdrawing completely from the "lexical reference" business segment)], in Boersenblatt.net, 16 December 2008.