Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung (English: Brothers Borntraeger Publishing House) is a scientific publishing company covering the fields of botany, Earth science, and environmental science.

In 1867, they purchased Verlagsbuchhandlung from Edward Eggers, moved to Berlin and shifted the emphasis to natural sciences.

Carl Robert Thost, one of the 34 founding members of the German Palaeontological Society ("Paläontologische Gesellschaft"), strengthened the publisher's board in 1895.

[citation needed] After World War II, they relocated to Nikolassee.

[2] In 1986, the company acquired the botanical publisher J. Cramer (whose titles include Dissertationes Botanicae and Bibliotheca Phycologica), which continues to operate as an imprint in the Gebr.