In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian
Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the
eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were
sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his
namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the
importance attributed to Nicolai's role in the intellectual life of
his age by his own contemporaries.
While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to
accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to
recognize Goethe's genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of
interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and
the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century.
This book, drawing upon Nicolai's large unpublished
correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already
as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and
publisher and as an Aufkarer in the book trade.
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