Bibliotheca Teubneriana
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana , with the full title: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ( Latin "Teubner's library of Greek and Latin writers") is a series of academic editions founded in 1849 by the authors of classical antiquity , often abbreviated to BT .
A Teubneriana is usually a single text edition (complete: editio Teubneriana ), more rarely the entire collection; the same applies to the term Oxoniensis in relation to the competing series of Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis , better known as Oxford Classical Texts .
Other series of editions of ancient texts are: the Loeb Classical Library , the Budé Collection and the Tusculum Collection .
history
In the 19th century there was a great gap between the expensive scholarly editions of ancient authors, which could only be acquired by libraries and wealthy private scholars, and the simple, often poorly and incorrectly printed editions for the use of pupils and students, due to the latter The great importance of Latin and partly also Greek in high schools and universities were nevertheless dependent. The Leipzig publisher Tauchnitz tried to bridge this gap with its inexpensive text editions. He did Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner after originally an employee of Tauchnitz, 1811 in Leipzig his own publishing company, BG Teubner founded, where in 1849 the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana appeared.
In a few years Teubner succeeded in building up a relatively complete series of the most important ancient authors in reliable editions. Under him and his successors, the Bibliotheca Teubneriana became an internationally respected institution. It published exemplary critical editions edited by the most important classical scholars (the so-called editiones maiores ) and inexpensive stereotype editions with the same text, only without a critical apparatus (the so-called editiones minores ) for the use of schoolchildren and students.
After the Second World War , Teubner-Verlag split up, like many others, into an East and a West company, both of which continued their ancient philological tradition, so that from 1989 onwards, until the two publishers were reunified in the course of German reunification, there were also two libraries Teubnerianae gave. With the loss of the great importance of the ancient languages for the curriculum, the need for text editions for pupils and students decreased, so that the series now v. a. critical academic expenditure included. The Bibliotheca Teubneriana has been published by Verlag KG Saur since 1999, which in turn (after a temporary takeover by The Thomson Corporation in 2005) has belonged to Verlag Walter de Gruyter since August 2006 .
See also
- List of works in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana
- List of book series on ancient Greek and Latin literature
