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Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers. They published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside Great Britain, including initial serial publications of novels by Charles Dickens.
Carl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz (1761–1836) established a printing business in Leipzig in 1796 and a publishing house in 1798. He specialized in the publication of dictionaries, Bibles, and stereotyped editions of the Greek and Roman classics. He was the first publisher to introduce stereotyping into Germany.The business was carried on by his son, Carl Christian Philipp Tauchnitz (1798–1884), until 1865, when the business was sold to O. Holtze. Christian Bernhard, Freiherr von Tauchnitz (1816-1895) was the founder of the firm of Bernhard Tauchnitz.