Johann Andreas Dieze

Johann Andreas Dieze (* 1729 in Leipzig, † September 25, 1785 in Mainz ) was a German linguist and librarian.

In 1763 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the University of Göttingen, then he took on the job of a librarian in the University Library and was a trustee and member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. As of Electoral Mainz Councilor, he acquired numerous works in Spanish for the library holdings of 1477 established electoral University of Mainz where he worked as the first librarian later. Dieze translated the Spanish literary history of Luis José Velázquez de Velasco (Málaga, 1754) into German and provided them with numerous annotations (Göttingen, 1769). This work played an important role for Johann Gottfried Herder, and was also read by other German Romantics. He wrote and laid the medieval and modern history of Spain and Portugal. He maintained a correspondence with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, but destroyed during the siege of Mainz 1793.

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