J. C. Arnold
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Johann Christoph Arnold (10 March 1763 – 6 August 1847) was a bookseller and publisher with offices in Dresden and Leipzig.

In 1810, Arnold was the first publisher of Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon, eventually issuing Hahnemann’s revised editions two through five. He also published additional homeopathic books by Hahnemann, including the multi-volume Materia Medica Pura.

In 1811, Arnold published Friedrich Hahnemann’s defence of his father’s work, Refutation of Hecker’s Attacks on the Organon of Rational Medicine. It was clear, however, that this book was actually written by Samuel Hahnemann himself.

Christoph Arnold was born on 10 March, 1763, in Hartmannsdorf near Frauenstein, Saxony.

The son of an impoverished farmer, Arnold had to abandon two attempts to study due to financial hardship despite attending high school. He worked as a clerk and eventually became managing director of the Crazische bookstore in Schneeberg. In 1790, he founded his own business there. In 1803, he became the owner of a bookstore in Dresden, which under his name became one of the most respected in Germany. From 1817, Arnold distributed the “Abendzeitung,” published by Hofrat Winkler, and founded a literary reading museum in 1825. In addition to school books and the writings of some novelists, such as F. Gerstäcker, he published some homeopathic writings.

Arnold died on 6 August, 1847, in Dresden.

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