Jacob August Franckenstein

Zedler's Universal-Lexicon is considered the most important German-language encyclopedia of the 18th Century. Jacob August Franckenstein (27 December 1689 – 10 May 1733) was the main editor of the first two volumes of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon (Great Complete Universal Lexicon), the most important encyclopedia published in the Holy Roman Empire in the 18th century. He already had some experience with the book market. He was a colleague and confidant of Professor Johann Burckhardt Mencke, publisher of the journal "New Learned Works" and other periodicals, a supporter of Zedler's mammoth project. Franckenstein died in Leipzig two months later, on 10 May 1733.

External sources dazu kommentierter Artikel im Zedler Eintrag in der Sächsischen Biografie