The twelfth volume of Johann Christoph Gottsched's correspondence records his efforts to collect material for a planned history of literature. It ranges from the controversy surrounding the Berlin academy's 1747 essay contest against Leibniz's monadology to the different responses to the rumors that a ghost haunted the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig.

Autorentext

Caroline Köhler, Franziska Menzel, Rüdiger Otto und Michael Schlott, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.

Zusammenfassung

Johann Christoph Gottsched (17001766) 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.

Supplement material (only in German)

• Bio-bibliographisches Korrespondentenverzeichnis
• Gesamtregister Abkurzungen
• Gesamtregister Absender
• Gesamtregister Briefe chronologisch 1722ff
• Gesamtregister Personen
• Gesamtregister Schriften
• Gottsched-Schriften