Tauchnitz, KARL CHRISTOPH TRAUGOTT

Tauchnitz, KARL CHRISTOPH TRAUGOTT, a famous German printer and bookseller, was born at Grosspardau, near Leipzig, October 29, 1761. Bred a printer, he set up in 1796 a small printing business of his own in Leipzig, with which he shortly after conjoined publishing and typefounding, and all his enterprise only added to his prosperity. In 1809 he began to issue editions of the Greek and Latin classics, the elegance and cheapness of which carried them over the learned world. He was the first to introduce (1816) stereotyping into Germany, and he also applied it to music. On his death, 14th January 1836, the business was continued by his son, KARL CHRISTIAN PHIL. TAUCHNITZ (1798–1884).—A nephew of the elder Tauchnitz, CHRISTIAN BERNHARD, BARON VON TAUCHNITZ, born at Schleinitz, 25th August 1816, also founded in 1837 a printing and publishing house in Leipzig. In 1841 he began his well-known collection of 'British Authors,' of which 2600 volumes appeared within the first fifty years. The enterprising publisher was ennobled in 1860, and made a life-peer in 1877, and died Aug. 13, 1895.