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

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, and became professor of history at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

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 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. * *

External links

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher und das Gelehrten-Lexikon
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jocher, Christian Gottlieb 1684 births 1758 deaths German librarians German lexicographers German male non-fiction writers Writers from Leipzig 18th-century lexicographers