When I founded this publishing house, I was looking for a good brand name. I could have named it after myself \u2013 following the example of Thorbeke, Steiner, Hiersemann and others. However, I wanted the name of the publishing house to signify more than \u201ejust\u201c my name. So I remembered a source I came across while writing my PhD thesis: The Visio Godeschalci, the account of a religious vision encountered by a peasant written in 1189\/90. The free peasant Gottschalk from Holstein during the siege of Segeberg encountered a vision of the afterlife which was recorded by a monk from Neum\u00fcnster. Gottschalk told him about his vision in which he as a part of a group of people who went through different stages of purgatory to paradise, accompagnied by angels. Apart from his group went a solitary person, called \u201eSolivagus\u201c, who suffered the same torments and ordeals but who lacked the comfort and consolation of being part of a group. Scholars have not yet been able to identify the person of the anonymous \u201eSolivagus\u201c in the manuscript, they agree, however, that he must have been a special person.
\nWhen I remembered this source, I had finally found the name for my publishing house. The name \u201eSolivagus\u201c now signifies the Middle Ages, Schleswig-Holstein, and the lenghty efforts and troubles I had to go through to establish a successful publishing house in an almost saturated market, making the conscious choice of being different than the others, of finding my own way, of going the extra mile.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I founded this publishing house, I was looking for a good brand name. I could have named it after myself \u2013 following the example of Thorbeke, Steiner, Hiersemann and others. However, I wanted the name of the publishing house to signify more than \u201ejust\u201c my name. So I remembered a source I came across… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wp-sticky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t