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Langenscheidt

German dictionary publisher
Organization Publishing House Q8870

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
publishing house, book publisher, dictionary publisher[3][4]
Official website
www.langenscheidt.de[10]
Legal form
GmbH & Co. KG[11]

Status and dates

Inception
1856[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1856 GND (DNB) 1951 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗

Location

Headquarters location
Berlin[6]
Country
Germany[2]
Location of formation
Berlin[9]

Industry and activity

Industry
publishing[7]

People

Founder
Gustav Langenscheidt[5]

Relations

Owner of
Hexaglot[12]
More facts +4
Different from
Wikidata item[13]
Has works in the collection
Anne Frank House[15]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[14]
Social media followers
+6052, +6014[16][17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Langenscheidt en Langenscheidt KG en Langenscheidtsche Verlagsbuchhandlung de Langenscheidt KG de Langenscheidt'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung de Langenscheidt'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH de Langenscheidtsche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Prof. G. Langenscheidt) GmbH de G. Langenscheidt's Verlagsbuchhandlung de G. Langenscheidt's Verlagsbuchhandlung (Berlin) de Langenscheidt GmbH & Co. KG fa انتشارات لانگنشایت hu Langenscheidtangol ja Langenscheidt ja ランゲンシャイト ko 랑겐샤이트 ko 랑엔샤이트 nl Langenscheidtsche Verlagsbuchhandlung zh 朗氏出版社
🔖 Identifiers · 42
ISNI
0000000123488246, 000000012347985X
VIAF cluster ID
122886300, 312977634
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n80131310
GND ID
4074003-1
OpenAlex ID
P4310320548
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
125812400
Bing entity ID
a6743a4b-b9ed-c229-19cd-d6d03b83e3dd
BoardGameGeek game publisher ID
24903
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12086208
CiNii Research ID
1140563741811080192
Crunchbase organization ID
langenscheidt-kg
Discogs label ID
65078
Show all 42 identifiers +30
Facebook username
224087867664322
Freebase ID
/m/062648
Google+ ID
108566331499822671561
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
langenscheidt
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0036484
ISBN publisher prefix
978-3-526, 978-3-468
IdRef ID
085697249
Instagram username
langenscheidt_official
J9U entity ID
987007264363405171
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
4074003-1
Libraries Australia ID
36323226
LibraryThing author ID
langenscheidt
Museum-digital person/organization ID
145631
MusicBrainz label ID
6cc171cb-c8bc-443e-a7ae-0b891538c82b
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00886465
NL CR AUT ID
kn20050510046, xx0350100
NLP ID
a0000002649044
NUKAT ID
n2013030645
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000080908
National Library of Latvia ID
000188104
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810593556205606
National Library of Portugal ID
184975
Open Library ID
OL2748616A
Open Library publisher ID
Langenscheidt
Open Library subject ID
langenscheidt_(firm)
Rate Your Music label ID
langenscheidt
SHARE Catalogue author ID
132640
WorldCat Entities ID
E39QH7Jmp9kp7qTrQXM34RpQ3F, E39QQPVp7MpG84HQvGX86mtDFg, E39QH7Jmt3mVB7bxJw7jbJKYJt
X (Twitter) username
Langenscheidt
Yale LUX ID
group/fc029b68-a125-4875-bd61-2f8b00dbf35f
📚 Sources · 1
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.

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Dissolved, abolished or demolishedP576
2013 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
publishing house, book publisher
Country 1
Germany
Founder 1
Gustav Langenscheidt
Has works in the collection 1
Anne Frank House
Headquarters location 1
Berlin
Industry 1
publishing
Legal form 1
GmbH & Co. KG
Location of formation 1
Berlin
← SNARC ID 1
Allt-yr-yn
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Summary

Langenscheidt is a publishing house[1].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Original Production[18]

  • Country: DE[19]

  • Began / founded: 1856[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 6cc171cb-c8bc-443e-a7ae-0b891538c82b[21]

Related Entities

Germany publishing house

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Frettie · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry → publishing
    Location of formation → Berlin
    Different from → Wikidata item
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NL CR AUT ID: xx0350100, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1791482290102"
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