Brill Publishers

Brill Publishers

Parent company	De Gruyter Brill
Founded	1683 (1683)
Founder	Jordaan Luchtmans
Country of origin	Netherlands
Headquarters location	Leiden
Distribution	Turpin Distribution
Publication types	Books, academic journals
Imprints	Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Rodopi, Brill Wageningen Academic
Official website	brill.com

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals. Brill was founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands, but has offices in Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore.

Brill today publishes 600 journals and around 2000 new books and reference works each year. Brill provides primary source materials for researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Areas of publication

Brill publishes in the following subject areas:

• Humanities:
  • African Studies
  • American Studies
  • Ancient Near East and Egypt Studies
  • Archaeology, Art & Architecture
  • Asian Studies (Hotei Publishing and Global Oriental imprints)
  • Classical Studies
  • Education
  • Jewish Studies
  • Literature and Cultural Studies (under the Brill-Rodopi imprint)
  • Media Studies
  • Middle East and Islamic Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Religious Studies
  • Slavic and Eurasian Studies
• Law (under the Brill-Nijhoff imprint):
  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  • International Law
  • International Relations
• Sciences:
  • Biology
• Social Sciences
  • Anthropology
  • Cartography
  • History
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
• Ecclesiology
  • Biblical Studies and Early Christianity
  • Theology and World Christianity

Further reading

• Ophuijsen, J.M. van. (1994). E. J. Brill, three centuries of scholarly publishing, since 1683. Leiden: Brill Publishers.