Johann Heinrich Zedler [SEP] place of death
Johann Heinrich Zedler
Johann Heinrich Zedler (7 January 1706 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) – 21 March 1751 in Leipzig) was a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclopedia, the "Grosses Universal-Lexicon (Great Universal Lexicon)", 
the largest and most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia developed in the 18th century.
After training as a bookseller, Zedler founded his own publishing house in 1726. It was initially based in Freiberg, Upper Saxony, and
Significant parts were also based on the "Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon" by Johann Heinrich Zedler.
Krünitz managed to finish 72 volumes during his lifetime. It is said that he died while working on the article "Leiche" (corpse). After his death (1796) Friedrich Jakob Floerken (1758–1799) took over the preparation of volumes 73–77, until he died too. His brother Heinrich Gustav Flörke continued from 1800 to 1813 with volumes 78–123. From 1813 to 1855, Johann Wilhelm David Korth (1783–1861) edited