 Despite including nineteen stolen items, it was on sale "before" the GMA.The editor was Christian Heinrich Schmid, and in subsequent years it would include the work of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and Karl Wilhelm Ramler.From 1776 it was titled "Leipziger Musen-Almanach", and from 1782 Benjamin took over as editor.