Nicholas Trübner

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Nicholas Trübner (17 June 1817 – 20 March 1884), born Nikolaus Trübner, was a German-English publisher, bookseller and linguist.

Nicholas Trübner

Early life

The eldest of four sons of a goldsmith in

Hoffmann und Campe at Hamburg, and Wilmann at Frankfurt.[1]

In London

At Frankfurt William Longman (1813–1877) offered Trübner the post of foreign corresponding clerk in his own business, and Trübner came to London in 1843. In 1851 he entered into partnership with Thomas Delf, who had succeeded to

Wiley & Putnam's American literary agency, but at first the venture failed. David Nutt
joined him, the business was put on a sounder footing, and the American trade developed.

In 1855 he published his Bibliographical Guide to American Literature[2] which he expanded four years later to five times its original size.

Trübner visited the United States and formed business connections with leading American writers and publishers.[1]

As a bookseller Trübner imported books from publishers in the United States, India and many other countries, and sold and exported books to bookshops and individual customers around the world.

Scholarly publisher

In London, Trübner took on the ordinary business of a general publisher and foreign agent.[1] Among the books he published was Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler, after Chapman & Hall had rejected it.[3]

Trübner studied Sanskrit under

Royal Asiatic Society and the Early English Text Society.[1]

Trübner's Record is the general name for a regular publication listing recently titles. It began in 1865 as Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record. In 1880 a new, expanded series was launched: Trübner's American, European, and Oriental Literary Record. A third series was started in 1889, titled simply Trübner's Record. It ceased publication in 1891.[5]

Trübner's Oriental Series was a hardback series of books in the field of Oriental studies launched in 1878 by Nicholas Trübner's firm Trübner & Co. in 1878. From 1890 it was published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.[6]

Later life

Grave of Nicholas Trübner in Highgate Cemetery

Trübner associated with

W. R. Greg, John Doran, and Bret Harte. His services to learning were recognised by foreign rulers, who bestowed on him the orders of the Crown of Prussia, Ernestine Branch of Saxony, Francis Joseph of Austria, St. Olaf of Norway, the Lion of Zähringen, and the White Elephant
of Siam.

He died at his residence, 29 Upper Hamilton Terrace, Maida Vale, on 30 March 1884, leaving one daughter.[1] He was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works

His own works include, besides the catalogues and bibliographies already mentioned, translations from Flemish of Hendrik Conscience's Sketches of Flemish Life, 1846, from German of part of Brunnhofer's Life of Giordano Bruno, Scheffel's Die Schweden in Rippoldsau, and Eckstein's Eternal Laws of Morality; and a memoir of Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian consul in London, whose daughter he married. He also collected materials for a history of classical book selling. In 1857 he edited and expanded his friend Hermann Ludewig's manuscript work The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Lane-Poole, Stanley (1899). "Trübner, Nicholas" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. p. 262-263.
  2. ^ Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, London: Trübner & Co., 1855; now online at Google Books.
  3. ISBN 978-1-136-17442-1
    .
  4. ^ Trübner's Oriental Series (Trübner & Co./Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  5. ^ John Mark Ockerbloom, editor Links for Trubner's Record via University of Pennsylvania
  6. ^ David Paul Wagner Publishing history of Trubner's Oriental Series
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lane-Poole, Stanley (1899). "Trübner, Nicholas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. pp. 262–263.

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