Jacob August Franckenstein
Jacob August Franckenstein was the main editor of the first two volumes of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon , the most important encyclopedia published in Germany in the 18th century.
27 December 1689
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Born in the same month (December 1689): Joseph Bodin de Boismortier