1738 – Juni 1739 (German Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110258641 ISBN 13: 9783110258646

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2011

Synopsis

Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) is considered to be one of the greatest scholars of the Early German Enlightenment. As a professor for poetics in Leipzig, he worked towards a reformation of the German language and a renaissance in German drama. His extensive correspondence and social contacts made him a 'European event' and his papers are being presented here in a standard edition: 25 volumes, approx. 6,000 letters to and from Gottsched, predominantly in German, are being published with a critical apparatus and an academic commentary. This edition is being published in co-operation with the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and edited by members of the academy. The edition is scheduled to be published over 25 years and offers an ideal addition to the multi-volume edition of Gottsched's works, already published by de Gruyter.

About this title

About the Author:

Detlef Döring, Rüdiger Otto undMichael Schlott, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.

Review:

"Die intellektuell ergiebige und über weite Strecken geradezu vergnügliche Lektüre auch dieses Teilbandes macht einmal mehr die Exzellenz des gesamten, national wie international hochgeschätzten Editionsvorhabens deutlich."
Joachim Bahlcke in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 6/2011

"Die Textgestalt, der Erläuterungsapperat sowie die diversen Indizes [...] sind von inzwischengewohnter, deshalb nur umso mehr zu lobender, mustergültiger Qualität."
Johannes Bronisch in: Neues Archivfür sächsische Geschichte 83/2012

About this edition

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3110258641
• ISBN 13: 9783110258646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 632
• Editor: Döring Detlef, Otto Rüdiger, Schlott Michael