Merck

From a Pharmacy to a Global Corporation 1668 - 2018
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-406-70039-2
Verlag: Verlag C. H. Beck GmbH & Co. KG

Buch, Englisch, 710 Seiten, Leinen, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1358 g

Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical-chemical company in the world. It developed into a global corporation from a Darmstadt pharmacy that Jacob Friedrich Merck received the pharmacist’s license for in 1668. This book tells the 350-year history of the company for the first time in its entirety and on the basis of all the available sources, as well as the newest research in business history.
For a long time, family-owned companies were regarded as a dying breed. The future seemed to belong to jointstock companies with an anonymous stockholder structure. Yet there are numerous successful counterexamples in Germany, such as Bosch, C&A and Bertelsmann. Merck, too, counts among them. How did the Merck family manage to keep the company in its possession for 13 generations through all the political ruptures and historical crises and turn it into a global leader among science and technology firms? With this as their central question, four acclaimed historians recount the fascinating history of the Merck company between 1668 and 2018, embedding it in the eventful course of world history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burhop, Carsten

Kißener, Michael

Schäfer, Hermann

Scholtyseck, Joachim

Weitere Mitwirkende

Paulick, Jane

Slater, Timothy

Sutcliffe, Patricia

Szobar, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie Apothekenwesen, Apothekenpraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Burhop, Carsten
Carsten Burhop is Professor of Constitutional, Social and Economic History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Michael Kißener is Professor of Contemporary History at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Hermann Schäfer is Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the founding president of the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn.

Joachim Scholtyseck is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn.

Carsten Burhop is Professor of Constitutional, Social and Economic History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Michael Kißener is Professor of Contemporary History at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Hermann Schäfer is Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the founding president of the in Bonn.

Joachim Scholtyseck is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn.