TAUCHNITZ, KARL CHRIS TOPH

TRAUGOTT (1761-1836), established a printing busine in Leipzig in 1796 and a publishing house in 1798. His special publications were stereotyped editions of the Greek and Roman cla ics, but he also printed Bibles and dictionaries. His s., Karl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz, 1798-1884, carried on the busine , and left money for philanthropic purposes. His nephew, Christian Bernhard, Freiherr von ‘Tauchnitz, 1816-95, also founded in 1837 a printing and publishing house in Leipzig, and began his Library of British and American Authors in 1841. In 1868 he began the collection of German Authors, and in 1886 the Student’s Tauchnitz editions appeared. town, S. Shan states, Burma; political and official center. Pop. c. 14,000. county town, on Tone, Somersets hire, England; has a Norman castle and fine Gothic church; manufactures silk gloves; here the Duke of Mon mouth was proclaimed king, 1685, and Judge Jeffreys held the ‘Bloody A ize.’ Pop. 1921, 23,219.