 In 1774 Boie made Voss editor, but Voss soon left for Hamburg and started a competing almanac; in spring 1775, he was replaced by Leopold Friedrich Günther Goeckingk; he was joined the next year by Gottfried August Bürger, who became sole editor in 1779.After Bürger's death in 1795 he was replaced by Karl Reinhard.A semi-pirated imitation by Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert, "Leipziger Almanach der deutschen Musen", simultaneously appeared in Leipzig.