About us
Kugler Publications
Since its foundation in 1974, Kugler Publications prides itself
on being a creative and efficient global niche player in the field of medical publishing.
With traditional strongholds in Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Kugler Publications
has built a solid reputation, not only for the quality of its books and journals
but also for the international congresses it organized on special topics in Laser
Surgery Ophthalmology. The titles published by Kugler Publications, bringing together
the world's foremost authorities and providing an optimal medium for the transfer
of intellectual ideas, are generally acknowledged as being state-of-the-art.
Our mission is to produce peer quality publications in the field
of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, and related fields for an international audience.
By doing so we aim to facilitate effective and efficient communication between scientists
all over the world.
We offer our publication services to organizers of meetings throughout the world,
as well as to individual scientists.
We are always interested in hearing about plans for the publication of new
books and journals from editors or authors with whom we already cooperate,
as well as from those with whom we have not yet had the pleasure of working.
So if you have an idea please send us the information by
e-mail or contact us directly at
meetings (see news for meetings where we are
present.)
Even today the spirit of the founder of the company,
Simon Kugler, is still very much present. The current managing director,
Simon Peter Bakker, had the pleasure of working with him since the founding
of the company. First as an advisor, and later on as a publisher. The future
managing director, Simon Bakker, still vividly remembers working at Kugler
Publications during school holidays. We aim to keep his warm personal touch,
and his way of doing business based on trust, friendship and long lasting
relations incorporated into our everyday company culture.
Kugler
Publications is an imprint of SPB Academic Publishing as of 1997.
SPB Academic Publishing
SPB Academic Publishing bv was founded in 1986 by Simon Peter
Bakker (at the time already working with Simon Kugler at Kugler
Publications), with publications encompassing the natural/life sciences. In
1995 SPB was acquired by the Dutch company Royal Vermande in 1995. In 1997, Royal Vermande sold the (complete) stock of all titles to Backhuys Publishers. However,
one year later Simon Peter Bakker was able to re-acquire the �empty� company
and the imprint Kugler Publications.
Here, at SPB Academic Publishing we believe that, although we
are a small company, we can play an important role in scientific publishing: we
outshine larger companies in efficiency and flexibility, produce at lower prices,
and can undertake projects that are too small for other, larger publishers.
We aim at quality, prompted by its respect for the
scientists who write and read.
Wayenborgh Publications
It is our pleasure to let you know that Kugler Publications has
become be the sole distributor of all
titles of Wayenborgh Publishers, as of January 1st, 2007. In principle the two companies
will publish future titles of this list together.
Wayenborgh Publications publishes books in two series:
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Julius Hirschberg - the History of Ophthalmology
It consists of a translation by Frederick C. Blodi (1917-1996) of the German
original which was published between 1899 and 1918. To this series are added
Haugwitz/Optical Instruments for the Examination of the Eye, Frederick C.
Blodi/The Eye, Vision and Ophthalmology on Postage Stamps (both titles
contained in vol. 12/2,1986) and Heitz/History of Contact Lenses.
Complete, this treatise will consist of 11 volumes in 19 parts.
See all publications in the
;"Julius Hirschberg - the History of Ophthalmology" series
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The History of Ophthalmology - The Monographs
The monographs are supplements to Hirschberg's history, written by
different authors but also translations of important monographs on
ophthalmic history and on optics.
This series produces about two volumes per year and was created 1995.
See all
publications in "The History of Ophthalmology - The Monographs" series
Belgium publisher of ophthalmic history
Extract from: March 15, 2000 / Ophthalmology Times
Belgium publisher of ophthalmic history is a rare find
Task of publishing for such a limited market is truly ' labor of love'
Ophthalmic Heritage
By Norman B. Medow, MD,FACS
Over the past few years, this column has reviewed some noteworthy
contemporary historical ophthalmic books. Publishing these books does not
yield great financial reward since the market for them is limited. The
publishers who take on these tasks do so primarily as a labor of love.
One
of these publishers is Jean Paul Wayenborgh, whose publications are
extremely well-done and whose love for ophthalmic history is evident in his
personal life story. Born in France and raised in Belgium, he learned the
antiquarian book business in Germany as a teen-ager. Early on, he discovered
his love for ophthalmic books and in 1961 he started his own antique
business. He has never looked back.
In the mid-1970s, he began publishing.
He met and worked with most of the world's best-known ophthalmic historians
when he published the periodical Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis.
His earliest published book, Atlas on the History of Spectacles, was a
three-volume masterpiece written by W. Poulet, which was published in his
Bonn, Germany location in 1978. Because of its popularity, the atlas was
translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and English, achieving much
success in all of these languages.
Self made publisher
We now know that W. Poulet was a pseudonym adopted by Wayenborgh. At the
time he had no authors to work with him, so he wrote, edited, and published
this book himself. In 1976, Wayenborgh met Dr. Fred Blodi and a mutually
beneficial relationship began, which would last for 20 years. Dr. Blodi and
Wayenborgh worked together on the translation of many classical books,
including the translation of Julius Hirschberg's monumental work, The
History of Ophthalmology, which ultimately will be 21 volumes when
completed. Every student of ophthalmic history deserves to have this series.
Wayenborgh began publishing a series of books under the heading, The
Monographs, about 4 years ago.
The International Biography and
Bibliography of Ophthalmologists (IBBO) will be published soon*. Part I is
scheduled to be released shortly.
* Volume 2 was published in 2002
