Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

German lexicographer

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1694

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 10-May-1758

Profession: librarian, biographer, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (20 July 1694 – 10 May 1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer. Jöcher was born in Leipzig, and became professor of history at the University of Leipzig 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 1733-1751, and was editor of the literary journal Deutsche Acta Eruditorum from 1719.
  • He died in Leipzig.

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