Tragom Jöcherove natuknice o Petriću
Searching for Sources of Jöcher’s Entry on Petrić

Summary/Abstract: The third volume of the authoritative Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon (1750–1751), compiled by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, contains an entry on the philosopher Frane Petrić. Apart from Petrić’s obscure place of birth, Jöcher’s data, if scarce, are correct. In order to establish the information that had been or may have been available to the German lexicographer, Jöcher’s sources have been traced. Out of the nine sources Jöcher listed at the end of his entry on Petrić, the German lexicographer consulted only the work Les Eloges des hommes savans (1683) by Antoine Teissier and the second edition of the Dictionaire historique et critique (1702) by Pierre Bayle. The oldest and most recent among Jöcher’s sources, Elogia illustrium Belgii scriptorum by Aubert Le Mire and Mémoires by Jean-Pierre Niceron, make no reference to Petrić. Although the remaining five sources contain valuable information on Petrić, Jöcher failed to consult them.

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