1886 1886 founder georg thieme country of origin germany headquarters location stuttgart key people albrecht hauff publisher wolfgang kn ppe general manager publication types books academic journals nonfiction topics science and medicine official website www.thieme.com thieme medical publishers is a german medical and science publisher in the thieme publishing group . it produces professional journals textbooks atlases monographs and reference books in both german and english covering a variety of medical specialties including neurosurgery orthopaedics endocrinology radiology anatomy chemistry otolaryngology ophthalmology audiology and speech language pathology and complementary and alternative medicine . thieme has more than 1 000 employees and maintains offices in seven cities worldwide including new york beijing delhi stuttgart and three other cities in germany . history edit georg thieme verlag was founded in 1886 in leipzig germany by georg thieme when he was 26 years old . thieme remains privately held and family owned . the company received some early success in 1896 by publishing wilhelm r ntgen s famous picture of his wife s hand in what is still one of thieme s and germany s oldest journals the 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 hauff . members of the hauff family have been the proprietors of the business ever since . 1 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 . references edit historical timeline . thieme medical publishers . retrieved july 7 2010 . external links edit official website thieme publishing group german retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thieme medical publishers & oldid 700424988 categories book publishing companies of germanyacademic publishing companiespublishing companies of germany1886 establishments in germanypublishing companies established in 1886hidden categories use mdy dates from june 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 18 january 2016 at 12 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view