Johann Christian Dieterich

Johann Christian Dieterich ( * 1722 in Stendal, † 1800 in Göttingen) was the founder of Dieterich'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung and close friend of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

Life

Dieterich began his merchant activities as owner of a silk goods business in Berlin, later in Gotha. 1749, he married the daughter of the bookseller Mevius and took over the Mevius'sche bookstore. In 1760 he founded another bookstore in Göttingen. This he expanded in 1770 to a print shop.

Among the most laid by Dieterich authors included Gottfried August Bürger and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Today is the known, published by him Gotha.

Dieterich was known as a close friend of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Lichtenberg lived and worked from 1776 until his death in 1799 in a house with Dieterich and his family, in close proximity with other students and make their servants. Also lectures were held in the house.

The close friendship between Lichtenberg and Dieterich is clear from the extensive correspondence received. While Lichtenberg longer trips he regularly wrote letters to Dieterich and his wife. The witty, often ( self-) ironic letters are to be read still highly amusing.

Known by Dieterich works of the company

• Almanac de Gotha or Gothaischer genealogical calendar, Göttingen 1763

• Göttingen bags Calender, in which, among other things, 1784-1796 Lichtenberg's comments on works of William Hogarth published. 1794-1799 were Dieterich an extended version out: detailed explanation of Hogarthischen engravings, with reduced but fully stan -ended Copien same E. Riepenhausen "

Muses Almanac 1798 Göttingen, " Poetic anthology " by Johann Christian Dieterich, FRIED. WILH. GODS