Akadémiai Kiadó is Hungary’s oldest publishing house that has been operating uninterrupted since 1828. Founded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, its original mission was to publish the results of Hungarian science. Since 1996, the publishing house operates as a share company, owned by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Wolters Kluwer. Akadémiai Kiadó publishes 100-140 works every year, including essential scholarly reference books, educational books, mono- and bilingual dictionaries, language course books, and Hungarian and foreign-language periodicals. Akadémiai Kiadó is market leader in the publishing of dictionaries and periodicals.