Facts and history of the publishing house
Each year Haase & Søns Forlag publishes about twenty titles, mainly school textbooks and non fiction.
Haase & Søns Forlag was founded on January 1st 1877, when Gyldendal sold its book shop in Klareboderne to its then managers, Daniel Emil Lehmann and Carl Sechmann Stage. Twenty years later the company moved to the recently acquired property at Løvstræde, where it remains to this day.
In 1911, Poul Peter Melbye Haase became a joint owner of the company. When, in 1921, he took his son, Ejnar Haase, into partnership, the company name was changed to Haase & Søn. In 1959, the company was carried on by Ejnar Haase’s son, Niels Jørgen Haase. On May 1st 1996, the fourth generation, represented by Michael Haase, took over management.
From the very beginning, Haase & Søn was a bookshop, but it was not long before Lehmann & Stage also started up in publishing, mainly commission publications and school books. From 1896, the company received a commission for hymn books for Det kgl. Vajsenhus (The Danish society authorised to produce hymn books) and bibles for Det danske Bibelselskab (The Danish Bible Society). The company produced and sold hymn books and bibles in Denmark up until the early 1980s. In Ejnar Haase’s days the company’s activity was extended to include a great many fictional publications.
In 1993, the book retail operations were sold off, and since then the company has concentrated on the publishing business.