Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (est.1853) was a series of German-language travel guide books to Europe, founded by Theobald Grieben of Berlin.[1] Some titles occasionally appeared in English or French language editions. Compared with its competitor Baedeker, Griebens was "cheaper and less detailed."[2] A 1914 British reviewer judged it "informative and not bulky, going easily into the coat pocket."[3] Readers included Thomas Wolfe.[4] In 1863 publisher Albert Goldschmidt bought the series and continued it;[5] in the 1890s the Goldschmidt office sat on Köthener Straße [de] in Berlin. By the 1950s Griebens was issued by Jürgen E. Rohde of Munich.[6]
List of titles by geographic coverage
Austria
Bayr, Hochland, Salzburg, Salzkammergut. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1920.
Wien. Griebens reiseführer.bd.68 (in German). 1903.
Belgium
H. T. Luks (1891). Belgien und Holland. Griebens Reise-Bibliothek (in German). Vol. 22 (5th ed.). Berlin: Albert Goldschmidt – via Google Books. + index
Belgium. Grieben's Guide Books. Vol. 141. London: Williams & Norgate. 1910. (in English) + index
Brussel (in German).
Czech Republic
Prag. Grieben's Reise-Bibliothek ;no. 26 (in German) (5th ed.). A. Goldschmidt. 1877.
Great Britain
London (in German).
France
Paris. Grieben's Reise-Bibliothek ;21 (in German). A. Goldschmidt. 1886.
^Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History. 33 (3): 323–340. JSTOR261119.
^Johannes Paulmann (2007). "Representation without Emulation: German Cultural Diplomacy in Search of Integration and Self-Assurance during the Adenauer Era". German Politics & Society. 25 (2 (83)): 168–200. doi:10.3167/gps.2007.250210. JSTOR23742817.