Theodor Buhl

Theodor August Buhl (baptised August Theodor Buhl; 16 May 1865 – 11 October 1922)^[1] was a British stamp dealer in London who published Stamp News, which he also edited until 1895.

Buhl was born in Frankfurt, the eldest of six children of music professor/composer Carl Friedrich August Buhl (anglicised to Charles Frederick Augustus Buhl) and Sophie Friederike (Sophia Frederica), née De Barÿ.^[2] The family emigrated when he was a small child,^[3] settling in Lambeth, London.^[4]

In 1890, Buhl was offered the business of Stanley Gibbons, who was retiring, but declined it as too expensive at £20,000. It was subsequently sold to Charles Phillips for £25,000.^[5] In 1892, he bought the business of Pemberton, Wilson & Co (London), and with it the rights to The Philatelic Record which he later merged with Stamp News.^[6] In the same year he was a witness at the trial of Bernhardt Assmus.^[7] Buhl kept a general stock but specialised in the stamps of South America and Messrs. Buhl and Co., Limited sponsored a Gold Medal for the best collection of the stamps of Peru at the London Philatelic Exhibition of 1897.^[8]