Johann Heinrich AlstedW
Johann Heinrich Alsted

Johann Heinrich Alsted, "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias", was a German-born Transylvanian Saxon Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millenarianism. His contemporaries noted that an anagram of Alstedius was sedulitas, meaning "hard work" in Latin.

Friedrich Arnold BrockhausW
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.

Ludwig Eisenberg (writer)W
Ludwig Eisenberg (writer)

Ludwig Julius Eisenberg was an Austrian writer and encyclopedist. He wrote a lexicon of stage artists, among other publications.

Johann Samuel ErschW
Johann Samuel Ersch

Johann Samuel Ersch was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography.

Johann Heinrich Samuel FormeyW
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey

Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey was a German churchman, educator, author, and journalist. The son of an immigrant French family, he preached, taught, and wrote in French. A founding member of the Berlin Academy, he wrote thousands of letters, popularized scientific and philosophical ideas, and also contributed to Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Jacob August FranckensteinW
Jacob August Franckenstein

Jacob August Franckenstein was the main editor of the first two volumes of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon , the most important encyclopedia published in Germany in the 18th century.

Johann Friedrich GleditschW
Johann Friedrich Gleditsch

Johann Friedrich Gleditsch was a major book publisher in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Johann Gottfried GruberW
Johann Gottfried Gruber

Johann Gottfried Gruber was a German critic and literary historian.

Abraham Gotthelf KästnerW
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.

Johann Georg KrünitzW
Johann Georg Krünitz

Johann Georg Krünitz was a German encyclopedist who started the 242-volume Oekonomische Encyklopädie and during his lifetime managed to complete its first 72 volumes.

Carl Günther LudoviciW
Carl Günther Ludovici

Carl Günther Ludovici was a German philosopher, lexicographer and economist. He edited a large part of the Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon, a major German encyclopedia of the 18th century.

Joseph Meyer (publisher)W
Joseph Meyer (publisher)

Joseph Meyer was a German industrialist and publisher, most noted for his encyclopedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon.

August PaulyW
August Pauly

August Friedrich von Pauly was a German educator and classical philologist.

Heinrich August PiererW
Heinrich August Pierer

Heinrich August Pierer was a German lexicographer and publisher known particularly for his Universal-Lexikon der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, a multi-volume encyclopedic dictionary first published in 1835–6. It went through a number of editions, both during his lifetime and later.

Rabanus MaurusW
Rabanus Maurus

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius, also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis. He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible. He was one of the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age, and was called "Praeceptor Germaniae," or "the teacher of Germany." In the most recent edition of the Roman Martyrology, his feast is given as 4 February and he is qualified as a Saint ('sanctus').

Gregor ReischW
Gregor Reisch

Gregor Reisch was a German Carthusian humanist writer. He is best known for his compilation Margarita philosophica.

Wilhelm Siegmund TeuffelW
Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel

Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the university of Tübingen, which post he held till his death.

Johann Heinrich ZedlerW
Johann Heinrich Zedler

Johann Heinrich Zedler was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon , the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century.