Tauchnitz
KARL CHRISTOPH a TRAUGOTT (touh'nits), a German printer and bookseller; born in Grosspardau, near Leipsic, Oct. 29, 1761. Bred a printer, he set up in 1796 a small printing business of his own in Leipsic, 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 muness was continued by his son, KARL CHRISTIAN PHILIPP TAUCHNITZ (1798his death Jan. 14, 1836, the busi- VON 1884). A nephew of the elder Tauchnitz, CHRISTIAN AN BERNHARD, BARON