The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tauchnitz, Karl Christoph Traugott

TAUCHNITZ, Karl Christoph Traugott, German printer and bookseller: b. Grosspardau, near Grimma, 29 Oct. 1761; d. 14 Jan. 1834. In 1797 he set up a printing shop at Leipzig, which he enlarged by the addition of a book-shop in 1798 and a type-foundry in 1800, the style of the firm being Karl Tauchnitz. He first introduced stereotyping into Germany, and won a high reputation by his musical publications, his editions of the Bible and the Koran and his remarkably correct series of Greek and Latin classics.