FUNK, I(SAAC) K(AUFFMAN)


Meaning of FUNK, I(SAAC) K(AUFFMAN) in English

born Sept. 10, 1839, Clifton, Ohio, U.S.

died April 4, 1912

U.S. publisher.

He was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1861 but resigned the pulpit in 1872 to travel in Europe and the Middle East. In 1877, with Adam Willis Wagnalls (1843–1924), he founded I.K. Funk & Co., later Funk & Wagnalls Co. (1891). The firm became best known for its Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893), whose successors remained in print through the next century.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.