Nicholas Trübner
Nicholas Trübner, actually Johann Nicolaus Trübner, ( born June 12, 1817 in Heidelberg, † March 30, 1884 in London ) was a German bookseller and publisher.
Life
Trübner was a son of the long-established goldsmith Karl Albrecht Trübner. His nephew was the Strasbourg publisher Karl Ignaz Trübner ( Verlag Karl J. Trübner ). His school days ended Trübner at the gymnasium of his native town and started in winter 1831/32 in the Academic bookstore of Jacob Christian Mohr and Johann Georg Zimmermann training as a bookseller.
In 1838 he moved to Göttingen to Carl August Ruprecht ( Cambridge University Press ). Three years later, Trübner went to Hamburg to Julius Campe to learn the work of a publisher in the Publisher. The following year he moved to Frankfurt am Main in the publishing of Friedrich Wilmann. There he made the acquaintance with the publisher W. Longman, who engaged him to London at once.
In the spring of 1843 Trübner came to London and started to work as a publisher for the publisher Longman. During these years he also began with small translations, and could in 1848 with "Sketches of Flemish Life" ( Hendrik Conscience ) recorded a small business success. When the revolution of 1848/ 49 had calmed the economic situation again, Trübner tried to make selbstsrtändig own publishing.
In the fall of 1851 Trübner left the Publisher Longman and founded with financial support from his home a publisher. Above all, the bookseller Thomas Delf engaged in this enterprise. The foundation became a disaster and after a few months was forced to declare bankruptcy Trübner. In the same year he founded together with the London Verlager David Nutt the Publisher Trübner & Co. ( Pasternoster Row, near St. Paul 's Cathedral). When his business partner died in 1863, he bought from his heirs whose shares and led the publishing house alone.
1873 moved the Publisher Trübner & Co. a representative office building in Ludgate Hill (City of London). Through his former partner Delf Trübner had very good contacts with North American publishers and booksellers. His 1855 published " Bibliographical guide to American literature " is still considered a milestone in the history of the American book trade. In the summer of 1855, he traveled for several months the United States. It made , inter alia, the acquaintance of Hermann Ludewig, whose work " The literature of American Literature ", he also published in 1857.
Trübner realized how important it could be the North American market, but also put a lot of emphasis on the worldwide presence of his publishing house. After a few years books were represented from the publisher Trübner & Co. in Istanbul, Tehran, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai and Yokohama. Over the years, more agencies came in Australia ( Sydney, Melbourne), South America (Valparaiso, Rio de Janeiro ) and Africa ( Cape Town, Johannesburg) to do so. In order to have a suitable tool of advertising, Trübner founded in 1865 the journal " Trübner 's American and Oriental Literary Record".
In order to be able to urteilun on the oriental literature itself, Trübner learned in these years Sanskrit with Theodor gold stickers and Hebrew with Abraham Benisch. In 1878 he founded the very successful series from the beginning Oriental Series. Another focus in addition to the " Oriental literature " was Trübners efforts, the English reader make works of German philosophy accessible in good translations. Important writers were Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Eduard von Hartmann and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Throughout the Franco-German War Trübner supported his country with political essays and essays which he published in his record.
On the occasion of the 400 - year celebration at Heidelberg University in 1886 founded the University of Trübner almost his entire private library. Since he already died eleven weeks before his 67th birthday on 30 March 1884 was followed by his widow this request and handed over the library in the summer of 1885. Way the books could be presented as a highlight of the festivities in a festive atmosphere.
His business partner Edwards and Duffing initiated the publisher until 1889 and then merged with the publishers Kegan Paul and Trench.
Works (selection)
- Bibliographical guide to American literature. In 1855.
- Hermann E. Ludewig: The literature of American aboriginal languages . In 1857.
- Hendrik Conscience: Sketches of Flemish Life.