Lexicon of Upper Lusatian Writers and Artists

Preface.

so that those who may wish to know the content or the literary value of this or that writing have a pointer in this regard.

The sources from which I have drawn, I have for the most part indicated; where this has not occurred, they have been the handwritten notices of the late Upper Lusatian historians, Pastor Kloß in Leube, and Pastor Sühnel in Wersdorf, or my own collections.

Furthermore, I recognize the imperfection of my work, although I can assure you that, as far as it was ever possible for me, I have taken the greatest pains to seek out the notices of the writers scattered here and there and to make them known to the learned world; I hope, therefore, that one will not overlook the laborious nature of it and will pass a fair and just judgment on this work. I made the beginning of these collections immediately after my university years and have continued them ever since, during which the excellent library of patriotic writers belonging to the City Captain Neumann in Görlitz — the public Council Library therein — and the Society Library of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in the same place have rendered me excellent services; therefore, I publicly offer my most obedient thanks to the Syndic Zobel, as well as to the Inspector of the Council Library, the Rector M. Neumann, as librarian thereof, and to the Tax Secretary Crudelius as librarian of the Society Library, that they were so inclined and willing to leave the necessary books to me for inspection from time to time. —