At the end of 1693 Gledistch handed the business over to his stepson, Thomas Fritsch, and founded his own publishing bookshop. Within a few years this enterprise became important as well, excelling in lavish publications. These included the main history of the Reformation,
Seckendorff's
Commentarius de Lutheranismo,
Ziegler's
Schauplatz und Labyrinth,
Lohenstein's
Arminius and the major biblical and theological works of
Johann Tarnow (Tarnovius),
Salomo Glassius,
Benedikt Carpzov der Jüngere and
Valerius Herberger. Gledistch and his brother Johann Ludwig, stepfather of
Moritz Georg Weidmann, persuaded the leading Dutch booksellers to send their works to the Leipzig fair instead of to Frankfurt, a major breakthrough for the book trade in the city. In addition to the great authors, Gleditsch achieved success in the two key growth sectors of the book market of the early 18th Century: encyclopedias and journals. He published
John Huebner's
Reale Staats-und Zeitungs-Lexicon (States and places lexicon) (1704), which with a supplementary volume published in 1712 became the indispensable reference when reading to the newspapers. It allowed people to look up places and countries that were named without explanation in the papers, as was the convention of the day. From the encyclopedias of
Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus (alias Amaranthe), he compiled the ''Woman's Lexicon'' (1715). Among the journals he published
Acta Eruditorum in Latin, supplemented in 1712 by the
German Acta Eruditorum, from which the leading review of historical writings developed. Gleditsch's companies created their synergy effects. Books published by the Gledisch were often discussed and promoted by his journals. Gleditsch died, aged 62, in
Leipzig. ==References==