Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766) is a central figure of the European Enlightenment. This handbook presents his works in the fields of poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, and language research. Poetics is explored with regard to genre differentiations (lyric, epic, drama, correspondence, and literary criticism), relevant poetological traditions (Antiquity, French Classicism, Baroque), and in collaboration with other authors, particularly Luise Gottsched (1713–1762). His oeuvre, along with its effects and receptions, is discussed in the tension between normative poetic claims, Enlightenment didactics, and proto-aesthetic innovative potential.