Johann Nicolaus (Nicholas) Trübner
1817–84
German-born publisher and philologist. Foreign corresponding clerk for Longmans (publishers), 1843–51. In partnership with Thomas Delf and David Nutt, established a successful London publishing house specialising in Asian literature and translations of works in philology, philosophy, and religion.
Sources
ADB
ODNB.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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