Johann Ludwig Gleditsch
Johann Ludwig Gleditsch (born March 21, 1663 in Eschdorf ; † January 20, 1741 in Leipzig ) ran the Weidmannsche Buchhandlung in Leipzig as a bookseller and publisher from 1694 to 1717 .
Life
Johann Ludwig Gleditsch learned the book trade in the company of Johann Friedrich Fritsch , which at that time was managed by his brother Johann Friedrich Gleditsch . In 1693 he traveled to the Netherlands, in 1694 he married the widow of Moritz Georg Weidmann, who had died a year earlier, and thus took over the Weidmann bookstore , which he ran for the founder's son, who was still underage. The company's books appeared until 1717 under the publisher's name "Johann Ludwig Gleditsch und MG Weidmann" with the monogram. JLG Gleditsch handed the business over to Moritz Georg Weidmann the younger in 1717 , who had already become a partner in 1713.
The management of the publishing house by Gleditsch turned out to be an entrepreneurial godsend. The extraordinary number of 826 titles proves this, as a look at the selection of books shows. Gleditsch published a number of the most important novelists of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, including Heinrich Anselm von Ziegler , August Bohse (alias Talander) and Georg Christian Lehms (Palidor). He published the first German edition of the stories from Thousand and One Nights (1710 ff) such as The Thousand and a Quarter-Hour (1716/1717), with which Thomas Simon Gueulette followed up on the successful title - titles that he had with a flair for the current belles lettres fashionably furnished.
literature
- No. XX. Naumburg Peter-Paul-Mess Anno 1699 Catalogus Librorum Joh. Ludw. Gleditsch, Bibl. Lips. Fol. Catalog with approx. 850 entries.
- Last honorary memory of Mr. Joh. Ludw. Gleditschens. 1741 . [There is also a note about the trip to the Netherlands]
- Johann Goldfriedrich : History of the German book trade from the Peace of Westphalia to the beginning of the classical literature period (1648–1740) . Börsenverein, Leipzig 1908, p. 2128 ff. ( History of the German Book Trade 2).
- Ernst Kelchner : Gleditsch, Johann Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 223 f.
- Adalbert J. Bauer: Gleditsch, Johann Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 441 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Ludwig Gleditsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by and about Johann Ludwig Gleditsch in VD 17 .
- Works by and about Johann Ludwig Gleditsch in the German Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gleditsch, Johann Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bookseller and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1663 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eschdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1741 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |