biography
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Funk, Isaac K(auffman)
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| lived:
| (1839–1912)
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| biography:
| Lexicographer and publisher, born in Clifton, Ohio, USA. Serving as a Lutheran minister (1861–72), he resigned in order to travel and returned to editorial work for the Christian Radical. In 1876 he started his own business in New York, supplying materials and books to ministers, and was joined (1877) by A W Wagnalls. The company, later renamed the Funk & Wagnalls Co (1891), published the Homiletic Review and various religious and secular reference works. In the 1880s Funk published the Voice, an influential temperance periodical, and also founded the Literary Digest (1890). He planned, supervised, and served as editor-in-chief of the notable unabridged dictionary, Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893), and of the New Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1913), which he had nearly completed before his death. |
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