Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (20 July 1694 – 10 May 1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer.
Jöcher was born in
Leipzig
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, and became professor of history at the
University of Leipzig
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in 1732. From 1742, he was university librarian in the
Leipzig University Library
Leipzig University Library (german: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig), known also as ''Bibliotheca Albertina'', is the central library of the University of Leipzig. It is one of the oldest German university libraries.
History
The library was foun ...
, 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
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'' 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 173
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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External links
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher und das Gelehrten-Lexikon
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1684 births
1758 deaths
German librarians
German lexicographers
German male non-fiction writers
Writers from Leipzig
18th-century lexicographers