Herbert Richardson (publisher)

Herbert Warren Richardson (born April 14, 1932)[1] is an American professor of theology, an ordained Presbyterian minister, and the founder of the Edwin Mellen Press, which describes itself as "a non-subsidy academic publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences.

He attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and pledged an interracial fraternity, where his friends included James Lawson, the activist and an architect of the civil rights movement.

[citation needed] In 1994, Richardson was fired by St. Michael's on the grounds that he had abused a medical leave and not fully disclosed the amount of time he was spending on a business venture, the Edwin Mellen Press.

[3][7] In 1994, the University of Toronto concluded that Richardson was a "dishonest and untrustworthy employee" who made "substantial financial gain" from running his two businesses, and sacked him.

According to coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education, more than 30 scholarly organizations condemned the press, which maintained that its good reputation was at stake and had prompted the suit.

[8] In 1998, Richardson befriended Margot Lipton, a former secretary to Robert Kempner, a German-born American lawyer who served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

[9] The returned documents did not include pages from the diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a chief aide of Hitler, which been held by Robert Kempner until his death in 1993 at age 93.