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The Allgemeine Literäre Anzeiger was a magazine founded and published in Leipzig in 1796 , which dealt with questions of literary communication and contained messages of a bibliographic-literary nature. The full title of the magazine was

The general literary gazette, or annals of all literature, for the quick publication of various news in the field of learning and art .

The magazine was founded by the 22-year-old law student and publisher and bookseller Johann Christian Friedrich Roch (* October 31, 1773; † 1801 or 1802) and initially published by Georg Voss. On February 22, 1799, he and a partner founded the Roch and Weigel publishing company , which was renamed Roch et Co on January 1, 1800 . Roch was reported missing on December 24, 1801 and "found in the water" at Großzschocher on February 11, 1802 . The circumstances of his death have never been clarified.

Although the publication enjoyed a high reputation, it had to cease publication with Roch's untimely death - in 1801, before his body was found. It had been a grant business from the start, on which Roch had put all of his fortune. That the magazine was highly valued can be seen from the fact that in 1811 - three years after its last publication - a general register was created, which is considered to be unique in the history of the journal industry. The complete register was initiated by Friedrich Nicolai , the editor was Johann Erich Biester .

From 1802 a successor organ was published with the literary sheets published in Nuremberg . The other stations of the magazine were the publishers Fleischmann in Munich and Cotta in Tübingen .

Individual evidence

  1. Zeno.org: Voss, family
  2. a b Medicinal writer's lexicon of the now living doctors , 1830-1845, ISBN 3891311869 , vol. 23, p. 240
  3. Peter Ufer: Leipziger Presse 1789 to 1815. ISBN 3825831647 , p. 118 ff.
  4. Harald Fischer Verlag: Allgemeine literarischer Anzeiger ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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