Brill Publishers

"[3] In addition, Brill provides primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

[5] As was customary at the time, Luchtmans combined his bookselling business with publishing, primarily in the fields of biblical studies, theology, Asian languages, and ethnography.

In order to cover the financial obligations that he inherited, E. J. Brill liquidated the entire Luchtmans book stock in a series of auctions that took place between 1848 and 1850.

[6] Brill continued to publish in the traditional core areas of the company, with occasional excursions into other fields.

More programmatically, however, in 1855 Het Gebed des Heeren in veertien talen ("The Lord's Prayer in Fourteen Languages") was meant to publicize Brill's ability to typeset non-Latin alphabets, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Sanskrit, Coptic, Syriac, and Arabic, among others.

[9] His directorship marked a period of unprecedented growth in the history of the company, due to a large extent to Folkers' cooperation with the German occupying forces during World War II.

[9] After the war, the Dutch denazification committee determined the presence of "enemy money" in Brill's accounts.

[11] Brill's path in the post-war years was again marked by ups and downs, though the company remained faithful in its commitment to scholarly publishing.

The late 1980s saw an acute crisis due to over-expansion, poor management, as well as general changes in the publishing industry.

[citation needed] Brill has developed a commercial font, free for personal use, that supports most of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic character ranges, including IPA and historical forms.