Lexicon of Upper Lusatian Writers and Artists

Preface.

Added to this was the assistance of various respected men who, as friends of literature here in the province, promoted my efforts with many contributions. Among them I count the Senator D. Anton, the aforementioned Tax Secretary Crudelius, Deacon M. Janke, D. Knebel, and D. Rothe in Görlitz; the current Pastor Pr. M. Nestler, the Vicar Mahr, and the Superior Court Advocate Föhrl in Bautzen, Pastor M. Conradi in Kamenz, P. Dietmann in Lauban, the Conference Secretary Hegner in Herrnhut, P. Müller in Jänkendorf, P. Seyfert in Kemnitz, the journalist May in Zittau, and likewise outside our province, Professor Meinert in Prague; all these men I name here with the most binding thanks.

I assure this same gratitude in advance to all those who will kindly communicate additions and corrections to me for this my current attempt, either in letters or in public papers, so that I may have the pleasure of using them in the addenda.

According to the design made, the entire work, the beginning of which is communicated here to the public, will appear within 2 years in three or four volumes of equal size, each of which shall have 2 divisions. In the last division, I intend to provide both a topographical and a scientific overview of all the Upper Lusatian writers and artists listed in the lexicon, as well as a list of noteworthy libraries, painting and copperplate collections, coin, and