Bibliotheca Teubneriana

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, with full title: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Latin for " Teubner library of Greek and Latin writers ") is a 1849 -founded several scientific editions of the authors of classical antiquity, often abbreviated BT.

As Teubneriana refers mostly a single text output ( complete: editio Teubneriana ), rarely the whole collection; as one proceeds with the term Oxoniensis, better known as the Oxford Classical Texts in terms of the number of competing Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.

More rows of expenditure of ancient texts are: the Loeb Classical Library, the Collection Budé and the collection of Tusculum.

History

In the 19th century there was a huge gap between the expensive scientific editions of ancient authors, which could only be acquired by libraries and rich private scholar, and the simple, often poor and error- rich printed editions for the use of students, the latter because of the importance of Latin and sometimes Greek at secondary schools and universities were still dependent. This gap was trying to bridge with its inexpensive text output from the Leipzig publisher Tauchnitz. He did Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner after, originally an employee of Tauchnitz, 1811 in Leipzig his own publishing company, BG Teubner, founded, in the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana appeared in 1849.

Teubner managed to build in a few years, a relatively complete set of the most important ancient authors in reliable editions. Under him and his successors was the Bibliotheca Teubneriana into an internationally recognized institution. In her one hand edited by the greatest classical scholars exemplary critical issues appeared ( the so-called Editiones maiores ) and on the other hand cheap stereotype editions of the same text, but without the critical apparatus ( the so-called Editiones minores ) for the use of students.

After the Second World War, the Teubner -Verlag informed like many others in an Eastern and a Western company, both also continue leading their altphilologische tradition, it also will henceforth until the reunification of the two publishers in the wake of German reunification in 1989, two Bibliothecae Teubnerianae was. With the disappearance of the great importance of the ancient languages ​​of the curriculum, the need for text output for students decreased so that the number now va critical scientific issues involved. Since 1999, the Bibliotheca Teubneriana is published by KG Saur, together with which it in turn ( after a temporary acquisition by The Thomson Corporation in 2005 ) since August 2006 belongs to Walter de Gruyter.