New publication: Grimm – Gotha – Paris

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Claire Gantet, Markus Meumann, Isabella Treskow (eds.)
Grimm – Gotha – Paris: A European Constellation at the Time of the Enlightenment
Publisher: Schwabe Verlag Basel, 2026
ISBN: 9783796553622
449 pages (hardcover)
78.00 EUR

This volume offers new research approaches on the significance of Friedrich Melchior Grimm (1723-1807) for the spread of the Parisian Enlightenment in German-speaking countries. For the first time, the role of the Gotha court, which made Grimm's existence as a "cultural influencer" possible in the first place and continued to support him financially even after his flight from Paris in 1792, is systematically analysed.

The editors
Claire Gantet is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Markus Meumann is an early modern historian and Scientific Managing Director of the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt.

Isabella von Treskow is Professor of French and Italian Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg.