Johann Georg Meusel (17 March 1743 – 19 September 1820) was a German

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lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

and historian. Meusel was born in Eyrichshof. From 1764 he studied history and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

, where his instructors included

Christian Gottlob Heyne Christian Gottlob Heyne (; 25 September 1729 – 14 July 1812) was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History. ...

, Johann Christoph Gatterer, Gottfried Achenwall, Georg Christoph Hamberger and Christian Adolph Klotz, the latter of which he followed to the

University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...

in 1766. In 1768 he was appointed professor of history at the

University of Erfurt The University of Erfurt (german: Universität Erfurt) is a public university located in Erfurt, the capital city of the German state of Thuringia. It was founded in 1379, and closed in 1816. It was re-established in 1994, three years after Germ ...

, where his colleagues included

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and Christoph Martin Wieland. From 1779 up to the time of his death in

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, he was a professor of history at the

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Selected works

* ' (6 volumes, 1778–80) – Latest literature of history. * ' (30 issues, 1779–87) – Miscellaneous artistic subject matter. * '; a revision of

Burkhard Gotthelf Struve Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (26 May 1671 - 25 May 1738) was a scholarly German librarian who became a polymath-historian based, for most of his academic career, at the University of Jena. Life Struve was born in Weimar, his mother's second son. Hi ...

's work (11 volumes, 1782–1804). * ' (18 issues, 1788–94) – Museum for artists and art lovers / continuation of '. * ', with Georg Christoph Hamberger (5th edition, 23 volumes; 1796–1834) – The learned Germany, or, encyclopaedia of living German writers. * ' (3 parts, 1799–1800) – Guide to the history of scholarship. * ' (15 volumes, 1802–16) – Encyclopaedia of German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. * ' (4th edition, 1817) – Textbook of

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. He was also an editor of the journals, ' (1785–86) and ' (1788–94).Johann Georg Meusel
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