Johann Erich Biester (17 November 1749, in

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– 20 February 1816, in Berlin) was a German philosopher. With

Friedrich Nicolai Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller. Life Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the bookseller ''Nicolaisch ...

and Friedrich Gedike, he formed what was known as the 'Triumvirate' of late Enlightenment Berlin.

Life

From 1767 to 1771 he studied law and English literature in

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and was taken on as a jurist in Lübeck.

References

Bibliography

* Alken Bruns: ''Johann Erich Biester'' in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Band 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 34 ff. * Karl H. Salzmann: Biester, Johann Erich. In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, , p. 234 * Alfred Hass (1880 - ?): ''Johann Erich Biester. Sein Leben und sein Wirken. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Aufklärungszeit in Preussen.'' ''Inaugural''-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Frankfurt a. M., 1925. * Alfred Hass: in ''Die Deutsche Schule''. Monatsschrift. Im Auftrage des Deutschen Lehrervereins, 30. Jahrgang. 1926, ''Johann Erich Biesters Bedeutung für das Geistes - und Bildungsleben Preußens während der Aufklärungszeit''. Seiten 602 - 611, 667 - 676, 730 - 740. * Ernst Kelchner: Biester, Johann Erich. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, S. 632 f. * Bernd Horlemann (ed.),

Hans-Jürgen Mende Hans-Jürgen Mende (19 May 1945 in Berlin-Kreuzberg – 21 September 2018 in Rostock) was a German historian. He was a lecturer in the history of philosophy at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. After the reunification of Germany (1989/90) he ...

(ed.): ''Berlin 1994. Taschenkalender'', Edition Luisenstadt Berlin, Nr. 01280; Seiten zwischen 16. und 17. Januar: ''Nicolais genauester Freund''

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Books on and by Biester
in the

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* H. W. L. Biester:
Über die Beziehungen zwischen Friedrich Nicolai und Johann Erich Biester
'. In Forum Nicolai, 2007 (also a
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