Johann Gleditsch

August 15, 1653 (age 62)

Eschendorf

Foreign financial reasons, he began to work for Elert Schumacher, a bookseller in Wittenberg, working as an assistant there until 1680. In the following years he developed the already prestigious company into a prominent scientific publisher, famous mainly for the publication in Leipzig of the Acta Eruditorum. He brought out the first issue of this work in cooperation with the great Erben publishing house in 1682. Within a few years this enterprise became important as well, excelling in lavish publications. These included the main history of the Reformation, Seckendorff"s Commentarius de Lutheranismo, Ziegler"s Schauplatz und Labyrinth, Lohenstein"s Arminius and the major biblical and theological works of Johann Tarnow (Tarnovius), Salomo Glassius, Benedikt Carpzov der Jüngere and Valerius Herberger. He published John Huebner"s Reale Staats-und Zeitungs-Lexicon (States and places lexicon) (1704), which with a supplementary volume published in 1712 became the indispensable reference when reading to the newspapers. lieutenant allowed people to look up places and countries that were named without explanation in the papers, as was the convention of the day. From the encyclopedias of Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus (alias Amaranthe), he compiled the Woman"s Lexicon (1715). Among the journals he published Acta Eruditorum in Latin, supplemented in 1712 by the German Acta Eruditorum, from which the leading review of historical writings developed. Gleditsch"s companies created their synergy effects. Books published by the Gledisch were often discussed and promoted by his journals. Gleditsch died, aged 62, in Leipzig.

Johann Gleditsch

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Background

Gleditsch was born in Eschendorf, near Pirna, on 15 August 1653, son of pastor Georg Gleditsch (1615-1665) and his wife Catherine (née Nikolai, 1624–1671). After his father died when he was young, he attended the Thomas School in Leipzig.

Career

Foreign financial reasons, he began to work for Elert Schumacher, a bookseller in Wittenberg, working as an assistant there until 1680. In the following years he developed the already prestigious company into a prominent scientific publisher, famous mainly for the publication in Leipzig of the Acta Eruditorum. He brought out the first issue of this work in cooperation with the great Erben publishing house in 1682.

Within a few years this enterprise became important as well, excelling in lavish publications.

These included the main history of the Reformation, Seckendorff"s Commentarius de Lutheranismo, Ziegler"s Schauplatz und Labyrinth, Lohenstein"s Arminius and the major biblical and theological works of Johann Tarnow (Tarnovius), Salomo Glassius, Benedikt Carpzov der Jüngere and Valerius Herberger. He published John Huebner"s Reale Staats-und Zeitungs-Lexicon (States and places lexicon) (1704), which with a supplementary volume published in 1712 became the indispensable reference when reading to the newspapers.

lieutenant allowed people to look up places and countries that were named without explanation in the papers, as was the convention of the day. From the encyclopedias of Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus (alias Amaranthe), he compiled the Woman"s Lexicon (1715).

Among the journals he published Acta Eruditorum in Latin, supplemented in 1712 by the German Acta Eruditorum, from which the leading review of historical writings developed.

Gleditsch"s companies created their synergy effects. Books published by the Gledisch were often discussed and promoted by his journals. Gleditsch died, aged 62, in Leipzig.

Achievements

In addition to the great authors, Gleditsch achieved success in the two key growth sectors of the book market of the early 18th Century: encyclopedias and journals.

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