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===Elsevier NV===
In 1880, Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company called NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier (Elsevier Publishing Company NV) to publish literary classics and the encyclopedia ''[[Winkler Prins]]''.<ref name=history/> Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family [[House of Elzevir|Elzevir]],<ref name=history/> which, for example, published the works of [[Erasmus]] in 1587. Elsevier NV originally was based in [[Rotterdam]] but moved to [[Amsterdam]] in the late 1880s.<ref name=history/>

Up to the 1930s, Elsevier remained a small family-owned publisher, with no more than ten employees. After the war it launched the weekly ''[[Elsevier (magazine)|Elsevier]]'' magazine, which turned out to be very profitable. A rapid expansion followed. Elsevier Press Inc. started in 1951 in [[Houston]], Texas, USA, and in 1962 publishing offices were opened in London and New York. Multiple mergers in the 1970s led to name changes, settling at "Elsevier Scientific Publishers" in 1979. In 1991, two years before the merger with Reed, Elsevier acquired [[Pergamon Press]] in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/business/maxwell-selling-pergamon-cornerstone-of-his-empire.html|title=Maxwell Selling Pergamon, Cornerstone of His Empire|date=29 March 1991|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=18 September 2015}}</ref>