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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAUCHNITZ , the name of a See also:

family of See also:German printers and publishers. Karl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz (1761—1836), See also:born at Grossbardau near See also:Grimma, See also:Saxony, established a See also:printing business in See also:Leipzig in 1796 and a See also:publishing See also:house in 1798. He specialized on the publication of dictionaries, Bibles andstereotyped See also:editions of the See also:Greek and See also:Roman See also:classics. The` business was carried on by his son, Karl See also:Christian Phillipp Tauchnitz (1798—1884), until 1865, when the business was sold to O. Holtze. He See also:left large sums to the See also:city of Leipzig for philanthropic purposes. Christian Bernhard, Freiherr von Tauchnitz (1816—1895), the founder of the existing See also:firm of Bernhard Tauchnitz, was the See also:nephew of the first-mentioned. His printing and publishing firm was started at Leipzig in 1837. The Library of See also:British and See also:American Authors, so See also:familiar to travellers on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, was begun in 1841. In 1908 the collection numbered over 4000 volumes. In 1868 he began the Collection of German Authors, followed in 1886 by the Students' Tauchnitz editions. In 186o he was ennobled with the See also:title of Freiherr (See also:Baron), and in 1877 was made a See also:life member of the Saxon Upper Chamber.

From 1866 to 1895 he was British See also:

Consul-See also:General for the See also:kingdom and duchies of Saxony. He was succeeded in the business by his son, Christian Karl Bernhard, Freiherr von Tauchnitz.

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