TAUCHNITZ  , the name of a

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

From 1866 to 1895 he was British

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