Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner

Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner (born 16 June 1784 in Grosskrausnik in Luckau in Lower Lusatia; died 21 January 1856 in Leipzig) was a German bookseller and the founder of a publishing company.

In 1811 he brought the Weinedelsche printing press to Leipzig, which he would bring to importance within Germany.

The well-known series of classical publications known as the Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana emerged from this.

Teubner died on 21 January 1856 in Leipzig and left the business to his sons-in-law Christian Adolf Roßbach (1822-1898) and Albin Ackermann [de].

For the 1840 book History of the Art of Printing ("Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst"), Friedrich Wilhelm IV awarded Teubner a golden tribute medal in recognition of "the typographical value of the work", and the English royal couple, to whom a copy had been presented, awarded him a golden coronation medal.