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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

1694 – 1758

German lexicographer

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Lived 1694 – 1758 (aged 63). Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was a German lexicographer, philosophy historian, librarian, biographer, university teacher and historian, known for University of Leipzig.

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (20 July 1694 – 10 May 1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer.

Jöcher was born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony. He became a professor of history at the University of Leipzig in 1732. From 1742, he was university librarian in the Leipzig University Library, where he began the complete alphabetic catalogue of the collections.

He authored the Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon ("General Dictionary of the Learned") in four volumes, published from 1733 to 1751, and was editor of the literary journal Deutsche Acta Eruditorum from 1719. He died in Leipzig.

Work Compendiöses Gelehrten-Lexicon: Darinne die Gelehrten aller Stände so wohl männ- als weiblichen Geschlechts, welche vom Anfang der Welt bis auf ietztige Zeit gelebt, und sich der gelehrten Welt bekannt gemacht, nach ihrer Geburt, Absterben, Schrifften, Leben und merckwürdigen Geschichten aus denen glaubwürdigsten Scribenten nach dem Entwurff des sel. D. Joh. Burckh. Menckens in alphabetischer Ordnung beschrieben werden. In zwei Theilen. Die dritte Auflage heraus gegeben von Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, Leipzig 1733

Literature Cole, Richard Glenn. “The Art of History and Eighteenth-Century Information Management: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher and Johann Heinrich Zedler.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 83, no. 1 (2013): 26–38. https://doi.org/10.1086/668573.

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University of Leipzig
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Leipzig University
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German lexicographer

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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was born on 20 July 1694 in Leipzig.

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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher died on 10 May 1758 in Leipzig.

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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was a lexicographer, philosophy historian, librarian, biographer, university teacher and historian.

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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was known for University of Leipzig.

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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher was German.

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