The German Societies that assigned themselves the role of maintaining German "language, poetry, and eloquence" in the eighteenth century are a fixed component of the history of language and literature, and not just because of Johann Christoph Gottsched. However, this volume is the first to consider which goals these societies pursued using which means, what they wrote, and who their members were by looking at the entire German-speaking world.

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Andreas Erb, Municipal Archive Amberg, Germany.