This paper examines the number and type of books of geography and geographical periodicals in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories and the place and chronology of their publication with reference to recent work on geographical print culture in the Enlightenment. The paper extends recent studies on Aufklärungsgeographie (Enlightenment geography) by taking a broadly quantitative approach and in presenting, for 345 books and 109 geographical periodicals, geographies of authoring, editing and publishing in the German-speaking territories between c.1693 and c.1815. Attention is paid to differences of content, to contemporaries’ interests in geography as a form of ordered knowledge (wissenschaft) and to the purposes of their work: broadly, education, polite sociability, and the ‘completeness’ of geography as a form of Enlightenment knowledge. We show how writing and publishing geography—and Aufklärungsgeographie—was spatially distributed and how the rise in numbers and increased diversity of geographical works raised questions about authorship and credibility and the content of geography.

本文结合《启蒙运动》中有关地理印刷文化的最新研究，研究了18世纪德语地区的地理和地理期刊的数量和类型，以及其出版的地点和时间顺序。本文扩展最近在研究Aufklärungsgeographie通过采取广泛的定量方法和展示，为345本书籍和109种的地理期刊，创作的地域，编辑之间在讲德语的地区发布（启蒙地理）Ç 0.1693和Ç 0.1815 。注意内容的差异，同时代人对地理的兴趣是有序知识的一种形式（wissenschaft）以及他们的工作目的：从广义上讲，教育，礼貌的社交性和地理的“完整性”是启蒙知识的一种形式。我们将展示地理的撰写和出版以及Aufklärungsgeographie是如何在空间上分布的，以及地理作品的数量增加和多样性增加如何引发有关作者，信誉和地理内容的问题。