Johann Erich Biester

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Johann Erich Biester by Ferdinand Collmann, 1795, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Johann Erich Biester (17 November 1749, Lübeck – 20 February 1816, Berlin) was a German philosopher. With Friedrich Nicolai and Friedrich Gedike, he formed what was known as the 'Triumvirate' of late Enlightenment Berlin.

Life[]

From 1767 to 1771 he studied law and English literature in Göttingen and was taken on as a jurist in Lübeck.

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Bibliography[]

• Alken Bruns: Johann Erich Biester in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Band 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 34 ff. ISBN 3-529-02560-7
• Karl H. Salzmann: Biester, Johann Erich. In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, p. 234
• Alfred Hass (1880 - ?): Johann Erich Biester. Sein Leben und sein Wirken. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Aufklärungszeit in Preussen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Frankfurt a. M., 1925.
• Alfred Hass: in Die Deutsche Schule. Monatsschrift. Im Auftrage des Deutschen Lehrervereins, 30. Jahrgang. 1926, Johann Erich Biesters Bedeutung für das Geistes - und Bildungsleben Preußens während der Aufklärungszeit. Seiten 602 - 611, 667 - 676, 730 - 740.
• Ernst Kelchner: Biester, Johann Erich. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, S. 632 f.
• Bernd Horlemann (ed.), Hans-Jürgen Mende (ed.): Berlin 1994. Taschenkalender, Edition Luisenstadt Berlin, Nr. 01280; Seiten zwischen 16. und 17. Januar: Nicolais genauester Freund

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• Books on and by Biester in the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
• H. W. L. Biester: Über die Beziehungen zwischen Friedrich Nicolai und Johann Erich Biester. In Forum Nicolai, 2007 (also at PDF-Version)