About Us

Our History

In 1953, Senator h.c., Dr. h.c. mult. W. Georg Olms (born in 1927) takes over as director of the bookshop, Georg Olms, and transforms it into a second-hand bookshop specialising in academic literature. In 1958, the bookshop becomes an international household name as publisher of academic reprints.

In 1983, W. Georg Olms purchases the rights to Weidmann Verlagsbuchhandlung.

In 1985, W. Georg Olms is awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy).

In 1987, the University of Hildesheim recognises him as honorary senator.

In 1988, the medical faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt accords him a medicinae honoris causa doctorate.

As of 1st July 2023, the academic division of Georg Olms Verlag is now part of the Nomos Publishing Group in Baden-Baden.

Publishing Programme

Major areas of emphasis include Ancient History (USA: Ancient Studies), Philosophy, German Studies, Romance Studies, Musicology, Art and European History. Since 2005, the Georg Olms Verlag has also been entrusted with the publication of numerous works for the Middle East. A selection of such prime projects includes the fifty-volume edition of the Documenta Arabica; the Mango Tree Encyclopedia, comprising eighty volumes; deluxe editions of the Royal Opera House Muscat; the twenty-volume series, Studies on Ibadism and Oman and source material, such as the thirty-volume Portugal in the Sea of Oman.