Editing Brill Publishers (section)

=== Founding by Luchtmans, 1683–1848 ===
[[File:Brill in Leiden.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Main office building of Brill, Leiden]]On 17 May 1683, the Leiden booksellers' [[guild]] registered Jordaan Luchtmans (1652–1708) as a bookseller. He combined his [[bookselling]] business with [[publishing]], primarily in [[biblical studies]], [[theology]], [[Languages of Asia|Asian languages]], and [[ethnography]]. He established close ties with the [[University of Leiden]],{{Sfn|van der Veen|2008|pp=12–13}} then a major center of study in those areas of research in the Netherlands. The business would stay in the Luchtmans family until 1848, when the last surviving heir preferred academia to academic publishing.{{Sfn|van der Veen|2008|p=10}}