Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Steiger, Ernst

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STEIGER, Ernst, German-American bibliographer, b. in Gastewitz, Saxony, 4 Oct., 1832. He was trained as a book-seller, emigrated in 1855 to New York city, and in 1863 opened an independent business. He became the publisher of important works of German-Americans and of language text-books, and also a manufacturer and importer of all that belongs to the Kindergarten system. Mr. Steiger is the author of “Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika” (New York, 1860); “Das Copyright-Law in den Vereinigten Staaten” (1869); and “Periodical Literature,” a bibliography (1873).