Thomas Fritsch (publisher)

Title page and frontispiece of the Neukirch collection, 1st part 1697

Thomas Fritsch (* 1666 ; † December 10, 1726 ), son of Johann Friedrich Fritsch , was one of the most important publishing booksellers of the early 18th century. His son was the Saxon statesman Thomas Freiherr von Fritsch (1700–1775).

Life

Fritsch's father died in 1680, making Johann Friedrich Gleditsch his stepfather, he ran the father's business until the handover in 1693.

From 1697 onwards, Fritsch published the anthology of poetry published by Benjamin Neukirch , which had become famous under the name Neukirch'sche Sammlung , and which was to pave the way for the young generation of authors in the gallant style of poetry. In 1699 Fritsch brought Gottfried Arnold's spectacular church and heretic history onto the market. In 1709 Fritsch published the General Historical Lexicon in 5 volumes , the German and expanded edition of the first large historical lexicon by Moreri , originally published in one volume , which was first published in 1674, and in 1721 Jablonski's General Lexicon of the Arts and Sciences .

literature

• Johann Goldfriedrich : History of the German Book Trade , Vol. 2: 1648–1740, p. 2028.
• Josef Benzing : The German publishers of the 16th and 17th centuries, a revision , in: Archive for the history of the book system 18 (1977), Sp. 1137.
• David L. Paisey: German book printer, bookseller and publisher 1701–1750 , Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-447-02825-4 , p. 68.
• Publications by and about Thomas Fritsch in VD 17 .
• Christian Gründig, Fritsch, Johann Thomas (last update: March 10, 2017), in: Sächsische Biografie, ed. from the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV
• Bernhard Kossmann: German universal lexica of the 18th century. Their nature and their informational value, illustrated using the example of Jablonski and Zedler. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade, Frankfurt edition. Volume 89, 1968, p. 2947 ff., Here: p. 2949 f. and 2953.