General scholarly lexicon

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Title page of the first volume of the General Lexicon of Scholars, 1750

The General scholar lexicon is a first time from 1750 published in four volumes lexicon with biographies of hitherto known scholars including their writings . The first edition was published by the Leipzig theologian and historian Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , with the first two volumes being published in "Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung", the publishing and product range bookstore continued by the heirs of Johann Friedrich Gleditsch . The third volume of the first edition was published by Georg Jöntzen (Delmenhorst), volumes 4 - 6 by Johann Georg Heyse (Bremen). The co-editors of the first edition were Johann Christoph Adelung and from the third volume onwards Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund . From 1784 to 1897 a total of seven supplementary and continuation volumes were published, which Georg Olms Verlag (Hildesheim) presented from 1960 to 1998 with its unchanged reprint of the work now comprising 11 volumes and in 1984 as microfiches .

predecessor

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Compendios Scholar Lexicon : Inside the scholars of all classes, as princes and state people who are experienced in literature, theologians, preachers, lawyers, Politici, Medici, Philologi, Philosophi, Historici, Linguists, Mathematici, Scholastici, Oratores and poets, both male and female, which from the beginning of the world mostly lived in the whole of Europe up to the present time ... have been described briefly and clearly in alphabetical order ...; .. The other edition in two parts divided, carefully overlooked, and increased with several 1000 articles, ...
    • [1] Johann Friedrich Gleditisch seel. Son, Leipzig 1726
    • [2] Other part, Johann Friedrich Gleditisch seel. Son, Leipzig 1726
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Compendioses Scholar Lexicon : In it The scholars of all classes as well as male = as female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day and made themselves known to the learned world ...; In two parts. The third edition
    • [A – L], Johann Friedrich Gleditisch seel. Son, Leipzig 1733
    • [M – Z], Anderer Part, Johann Friedrich Gleditisch seel. Son, Leipzig 1733

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The subtitle in the old spelling also summarizes the content of the lexicon,

“[...] Therein the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present time, and made themselves known to the learned world; According to their birth, life, strange stories, deaths and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order [...] "

Continuations and additions

Since such a complex work of subjects can never be complete, some people soon began to publish essays that were intended to critically supplement that work. First of all, the very fragmentary work by Ernst Christian Hauber (1730–1801) and the much more complex work by Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel should be emphasized. At the end of the 18th century, Johann Christoph Adelung began to take up the subject again. Karl August Hennicke (1769–1831), too , then worked on further additions to the work in the early 19th century and included Johann Georg Meusel's dictionary of writers. Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, on the other hand, concentrated on continuing Adelung's work on the systematics of the Jöcherische Allgemeine Schehrtenlexikons, which then received another supplementary volume from the German Society in Leipzig at the end of the 19th century . The following works are available as a supplement to the general dictionary of scholars:


  • Ernst Christian Hauber: Addendum to Jöcherischen Schehrtenlexicon , Rothischen Buchhandlung, Copenhagen Leipzig 1753 ( digitized version )


  • Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historical-critical news from deceased scholars and their writings. But especially those who are in the very latest edition of the Jöcherische Allgemeine Scholars-Lexicon either completely passed over with silence, or at least inadequately and incorrectly cited.
    • 1st volume
      • Volume 1, Part 1, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen, 1753 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 1, Part 2, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen, 1753 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 1, Part 3, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen, 1754 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 1, Part 4, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen, 1754 ( digitized version )
    • 2nd volume
      • Volume 2, Part 1, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Dessau and Köthen, 1755 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 2, Part 2, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Dessau and Köthen, 1756 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 2, Part 3, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Dessau and Köthen, 1756 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 2, Part 4, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen, 1756 ( digitized version )
    • 3rd volume
      • Volume 3, Part 1, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen and Dessau, 1757 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 3, Part 2, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen and Dessau, 1758 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 3, Part 3, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen and Dessau, 1759 ( digitized version )
      • Volume 3, Part 4, Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen and Dessau, 1760 ( digitized version )
    • Appendix of additions and notes, to the first, second and third volumes of the Historically Critical Messages from deceased scholars and their writings. Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen and Dessau, 1760 ( digitized version )


  • Johann Christoph Adelung: continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico ,
    • First volume (A – B), Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1784 ( digitized version )
    • Second volume (C – I), Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1787 ( digitized version )
  • from the letter K continued by Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico
    • Third volume (Ka – Lu; supplement), Georg Jöntzen, Delmenhorst 1810 ( digitized version )
    • Fourth volume (Lu – Mo), Georg Jöntzen, Bremen 1813 ( digitized version )
    • Fifth volume (Mon – Pf), Johann Georg Heyse , Bremen 1816 ( digitized )
    • Sixth volume (Pf – Ri), Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1819 ( digitized )
  • edited by Otto Günther


  • Karl August Hennicke: Contributions to the addition and correction of the Jöcher'schen Allgemeine Scholars-Lexikons and the Meusel'schen Lexikons of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 .

Web links

Wikisource: Biographical Reference Works  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Subtitle: "in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings".
  2. ↑ (Ed.) Otto Günther.