Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

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Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Leipzig 20 July, 1694 - Leipzig 10 May, 1758) was a German academic, librarian and lexicographer.

Jöcher became professor of history at the University of Leipzig in 1732. From 1742, he was university librarian in Leipzig, 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 1750-1751, and was editor of the literary journal Deutsche Acta Eruditorum from 1719.

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• J. Franck, "Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb", in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Bd. 14, S. 103–105.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher und das Gelehrten-Lexikon