Die Berliner Hugenotten und der Fall Barbeyrac

A close study of the Berlin Huguenot Refuge and its most famous figure, Jean Barbeyrac. Deeply rooted in the archives and full of new materials, it greatly clarifies the complicated relationship of Huguenot learning to cultural patronage, political cabals, theological disputes, and wider European networks. Hauptthema dieser Untersuchung sind die theologischen Auseinandersetzungen im Berliner Refuge Ende des 17.Jahrhunderts und die Bemuhungen der Orthodoxen, den aufklarerischen Stromungen Einhalt zu gebieten. Sie gewahrt auch einen Blick in den Alltag der Kolonie und die Religionspolitik der Hohenzollern.

Review:

This book is a model of precise, scrupulous, and unfashionably modest scholarship that in its wealth of newly discovered materials and discreetly advanced reinterpretations provides a suitable capstone to a career devoted to recovering and contextualizing key debates in the early French and German enlightenments. T.J. Hochstrasser, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 965-966