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The Template:Lang was a German publishing company founded 1826 in Gotha by Joseph Meyer. It moved to Hildburghausen in 1828 and to Leipzig in 1874.<ref name="Oxford"/> Its production over the years includes such well-known titles as Template:Lang (encyclopaedias, since 1839, see Template:Lang), Template:Lang (animal life, 1863–1869, 4th ed. 1911–1918); Template:Lang (dictionaries on every aspect of the language, since 1880); Template:Lang (guide books, 1862–1936); Template:Lang (literature); atlases (Template:Lang, Template:Lang); newspapers (Template:Lang);<ref name="Koloniale_Zeitschrift"/> and others.
In 2022, the Template:Lang was fully integrated into Cornelsen Verlag and thus ceased to exist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The buildings of the company were completely destroyed by the bombing raids on Leipzig 1943/1944; the company itself was expropriated by the communist regime of East Germany in 1946 and turned into a publicly owned enterprise (Template:Lang). The shareholders moved the company to Mannheim in West Germany in 1953 (Template:Lang). Titles like Template:Lang, Template:Lang, Template:Lang and Template:Lang appeared again. In Leipzig remained the Template:Lang, operating in the same field, publishing Template:Lang, Template:Lang etc.
In 1984 Template:Lang amalgamated with its biggest competitor in the market of reference works, Template:Lang of Wiesbaden to Template:Lang,<ref name="bifab"/> having their seat in Mannheim. After the German reunification the company regained its former properties in Leipzig in 1991.<ref name="leipzig-lexicon"/>