  We introduce braid monodromy for the discriminant hypersurface in versal
unfoldings of hypersurface singularities. Our objective is then to compute this
invariant for singularities of Brieskorn Pham type:
  First we consider the unfolding by linear monomials in some detail and relate
it to the versal unfolding. Next we present the A_n case in our framework. The
two main chapters then provide the result in case of two variables and the
inductive step to all higher dimensions.
  We finish with a presentation of the fundamental group of the discriminant
complement.
