LEIPZIG AND BOOKS

Schiller's house in Leipzig Gohlis

Beside a centre of commerce and fairs Leipzig is a city of significant cultural, artistic and scientific importance.

The Leipzig university, founded 1409, is the second oldest in Germany, following Heidelberg. Leipzig is a very famous city of books and publishers, just giving you a few names of the publishers: Baedeker, Reclam, Göschen and Brockhaus, and Goethe, Schiller, Gottsched, Gellert, Klopstock and Lessing stand for the authors.

Leipzig is the seat of the German Library and the Central Library for the Blind. The Academy of Visual Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) is one of the most important one of its kind.nd Buchgewerbe', gehört sicher zur bedeutendsten ihrer Art nicht nur in Deutschland.