Editing Johann Heinrich Zedler (section)

==Wolf, Zedler, Heinsius==

===Fresh start and the fight against pirated publications===
The financial commitment of the Leipzig businessman Johann Heinrich Wolf gave Zedler a new start.
In the ''Universal Lexicon'', Wolf is described as a merchant with a special love of science who likes nothing better than reading good and scholarly books.{{sfn|Gross Lexicon - Wolff}}
Quedenbaum thought Wolf took over further funding of Zedler because he was right in the target audience of the ''Universal Lexicon'', and  believed in continuing the work rather than in letting it cease.{{sfn|Quedenbaum|1977|p=221}}
There are no recorded documents such as a contract between Zedler and Wolf, so the details of the relationship are not known.

On 5 August 1737, Zedler's imperial privilege for printing the ''Universal Lexicon'' was suspended.
Zedler said this was because of failure to deliver copies of his work due to the imperial court.
Quedenbaum considers this unlikely and suggests that the withdrawal of the imperial printing privilege was due to the influence of the book printer and publisher Johann Ernst Schultze, of the Bavarian court.{{sfn|Quedenbaum|1977|p=218}}
Schultze was aware of Zedler's financial collapse, since he had been involved in printing previous volumes.{{sfn|Juntke|1956|p=30}}
Also, Schultze had found a suitable editor with Paul Daniel Longolius, who in 1735 had been appointed rector of the school at [[Hof, Germany|Hof]]. As a former employee of Zedler, Longolius had the experience needed for publication of further volumes of the Encyclopedia. After Zedler lost the privilege he had been granted in January 1735, Schultze requested an imperial privilege in his own name, which was issued on 11 June 1738.

Schultze printed 17th and 18th volumes of the Universal-Lexicon and tried to sell them in Leipzig. To this end, he sent the imperial notary Bernhard Christian Groot from [[Offenbach am Main|Offenbach]] with two journeymen printers as witnesses to the Leipzig Book Commission. The Book Commission accepted Groot but the Leipzig Council threw him out of town.
In a letter dated 10 October 1738 the council explained their decision to the State Government in Dresden, rejecting the validity of Groot's imperial authority to publish in the city.{{sfn|Kirchhoff|1892|p=96}}

For Zedler this document restricting the scope of the imperial privilege was a godsend, because it secured the continuation of his lexicon. The philosophy professor [[Carl Günther Ludovici]], a classmate of Longolius, took over as editor of the ''Universal Lexicon'' from Volume 19. Schultze stopped printing further volumes of the Universal Lexicon's in 1745 because of financial difficulties.

===Temporary retirement===
[[File:Zedler Band 61 (1749), Sp. 309-312 (Hervorhebung).jpg|thumb|300px|61st Volume of the Universal-Lexicon published in 1749, which contained the article on Zedler.]]

Zedler was increasingly marginalized after the financial takeover of his publishing house by Wolf, and after Carl Günther Ludovici took over the direction of the 19th and subsequent volumes of the ''Universal Lexicon''.{{sfn|Gross Lexicon - Ludovici}}
Ludovici made the bibliography at the end of each article more complete, made articles much longer and introduced biographies of living people.{{sfn|Schneider|2004|p=205}}
Zedler seems to have also given up his own bookstore, because an advertisement for the Easter Fair of 1739, published in the ''New Learned Papers'', said that the two most recent encyclopedia volumes were available from "Wolf's vault, Auerbach court".{{sfn|Quedenbaum|1977|p=243}}

Zedler began to return to private life. The article on Zedler published in 1749 in the 61st volume of the ''Universal Lexicon'' remarks that Zedler had decided on forms of employment he preferred to the trade after the acquisition of the publishing business by Wolf.{{sfn|Gross Lexicon - Zedler|1749|pp=309-311}}
Zedler owned property in Wolfshain, one of five villages that [[Moritz, Duke of Saxony]] had given [[Leipzig University]] in 1544.{{sfn|Gross Lexicon - Wolfshayn}}
Quedenbaum characterized Zedler as "impetuous", and suggested that he retired to peace in Wolfshain in order to plan new publishing projects.{{sfn|Quedenbaum|1977|p=250}}
However, he needed to publish under a new name to avoid past associations.

===New publishing projects with Heinsius===
[[File:Zedler - Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer der Kauffmannschafft.jpg|thumb|left|Cover of the first volume of the ''General Treasure Chamber'' under the trade name of Heinsius.]]

In 1740 a number of Zedler's products appeared under the name of the Leipzig bookseller and publisher [[Johann Samuel Heinsius]].
This began with a relaunch of Zedler's Cabinet magazine, under a slightly altered title. It is not known how successful the new magazine was, or why Heinsius included it in his publishing program since from 1739 he already had a similar monthly magazine under the title of "''Genealogical and historical messages of the principal events of the European courts''".

In 1741 there followed the first volume of the ''General Treasure Chamber'', a four volume commercial lexicon translated by Ludovici from the ''Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce (General Commercial Dictionary)'' by [[Jacques Savary des Brûlons]].{{sfn|Quedenbaum|1977|p=265}}
The fourth volume was delivered as early as 1742, covering the letters "S" to "Z".
A year later, a supplementary volume was produced with additions and an index.
A final part of the work advertised under the title "Merchants now living in and outside Germany" did not appear.<ref>''Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen'', 1743, S. 536.</ref>

Zedler's next publishing project was the ''Corpus Juris Cambialis (Stock Exchange Laws)'' of [[Johann Gottlieb Siegel]].
Heinsius advertised the two-volume publication in the newspapers in April 1742, seeking Praenumeration subscribers. Both volumes were ready in time for the Leipzig Michaelmas Fair that year, as were the 33rd and 34th volumes of the ''Universal Lexicon''. The 12th volume of the ''General state, War, Church and Scholarly History'' under the auspices of Wolf also appeared at this, with content up to 1700.

After the ''Treasury Board'' and the ''Corpus Juris Cambialis'', Zedler again began a major publishing project.
The basis for Heinsius's ''Historical and Political-Geographic Atlas of the whole world'' was a translation of the ''Grand Dictionnaire Géographique Et Critique'' of [[Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière]]. The German version ran to 13 volumes, published by Heinsius between 1744 and 1749.