Johann Friedrich Gleditsch

Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, ( born August 15, 1653 Eschendorf at Pirna, † March 26, 1716 in Leipzig ) was a major book publisher in the late 17th and early 18th century.

Life

As the son of the pastor Georg Gleditsch ( 1615-65 ) and his wife Catharina (born Nikolai, 1624-1671 ) was born, he went after the early death of his father Thomas School in Leipzig. For financial reasons, he started at Elert Schumacher in Wittenberg a bookseller; he remained there employed as an assistant until 1680. In 1681 he was publisher servant in the business of the late John Frederick Fritsch, whose widow Catarina Margaretha he married in November 1681. In the following years he developed the already reputable businesses an outstanding scientific publishing his time, famous especially by the publication of the Leipzig Acta Eruditorum whose first issue in 1682 he brought out in cooperation with the publishing house of the Gros -sian heirs.

End of 1693, he handed over the business to his stepson Thomas Fritsch and founded his own publishing house, which also gained importance within a few years, because they excelled with lavish publications. So one can cite, for example, the main work of the history of the Reformation, Seckendorff Commentarius de Lutheranismo, Ziegler venue and maze Lohenstein Arminius and the great biblical and theological works of Johann Tarnow ( Tarnovius ) Glassius, Carpzov, Dieterici, Pritius, Herberger.

In addition to the great authors Gleditsch achieved success with the two most important growth industries of the book market of the early 18th century encyclopedias and journals. With him in charge of Johann Hübner Reale State and Newspaper Lexicon (1704 ), which a little later the title "Conversations - Lexicon " prevailed and with his supplementary volume in 1712 the indispensable companion reading the newspapers was published - here you could see the places and countries look up that were mentioned in newspapers, because newspapers offered their messages in the current style largely without all the explanations and comments.

The encyclopedias were compiled by the Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus alias Amaranthes Frauenzimmer- Lexicon (1715 ). Among the journals that appear in its publisher Latin Acta Eruditorum were supplemented in 1712 by the Germans Acta Eruditorum, which developed into the leading German organ review of historical writings. The companies created their own synergy effects: title, published by Gledisch, were regularly discussed and advertised as in the journals of the house.

Handed Benjamin Wedel Menantes biography, that the authors of newspaper Lexicons received 2 ½ Reichstaler for the sheet.