[100 years "Zentralblatt für allgemeine Pathologie und pathologische Anatomie." Origin and growth of the journal].

Abstract

An account is given of the historic background against which the journal was founded in 1890 by publisher GUSTAV FISCHER, Jena, and Prof. Dr. ERNST ZIEGLER, Freiburg/Br. The developments that have ever since taken place through a hundred years under different publishers and editors provide enlightening insights into changing concepts of the journal and variable external conditions for its publications. It came under extremely negative influence during national-socialist rule in Germany. So far unpublished documents are evaluated to describe the reprisals to which the long-standing co-editor Prof. Dr. WALTHER BERBLINGER, University of Jena, had been exposed by the national-socialist rulers for the Jewish origin of his wife. "Zentralblatt für allgemeine Pathologie und pathologische Anatomie", after the end of World War Two, succeeded in gradually regaining an international standing reflected in its community of authors and readers.