Lexicon of Upper Lusatian Writers and Artists

Preface.

stand as one who strove to be for them what these men endeavored to be for the whole. This is the case not only with regard to living authors, but also with regard to the deceased: one needs only to briefly look through the large Gelehrten-Lexikon Lexicon of Scholars by Jöcher, and everyone will notice not a few gaps and deficiencies in regard to his own province. Herein may also lie the reason why the Hofrath Court Councilor and Librarian Adelung hesitates with the continuation of the Jöcher Lexicon: he is waiting for provincial scholarly registers.

This brought me to the decision to produce this attempt at an Oberlausizisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon Lexicon of Upper Lusatian Writers, and to include therein both the living and the deceased, while at the same time incorporating the most excellent Upper Lusatian artists since the 15th century. In this work, as far as the former are concerned, I direct my main attention to two points: firstly, to list as many Upper Lusatian writers as possible, without regard for their importance as authors; and secondly, to enumerate all books, treatises, and essays inserted into other larger books that have appeared in print and have become known to me, without omitting those who have only published a dissertation, provided they are named as authors on the title page. Accordingly, I include no others than those who have made themselves known as writers, whether they are scholars by profession, or politicians, nobles, or even so-called unstudied persons, provided they can be counted among the Upper Lusatians. By this name, I mean primarily