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== Biography ==
Johann Heinrich Merck born on 11 april 1741 year. His parents were pharmacist Johann Franz Merck (1687—1741) and his wife Elizabeth Catharina Merck, nee Keyser (1706—1786).
He studied law at [[Gießen]], and in 1767 was given an appointment in the paymaster's department at Darmstadt, and a year later himself became paymaster. For a number of years he exercised considerable influence upon the literary movement in Germany; he helped to found the ''Frankfurter gelehrte Anzeigen'' in 1772, and was one of the chief contributors to [[Christoph Friedrich Nicolai|Nicolai]]'s ''Allgemeine Bibliothek''.
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