Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768)

Ulrich Groetsch, Ph.D. (2008), Rutgers University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNote to the Reader and List of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1From Protégé to Peer: Reimarus at the Hamburg School of PolyhistorsChapter 2Among Pagans and Hebrews: Teaching Jewish Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century HamburgChapter 3Jean Le Clerc’s Faithful Pupil: Reimarus Encounters the Profane Chapter 4Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio’s Roman HistoryChapter 5How Reimarus Read His BibleChapter 6The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea: What Lessing and His Opponents during the Fragmentenstreit Did Not SeeAfterthoughtsBibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary SourcesIndex

“engrossing … Anyone interested in the German Enlightenment should read this fine book”. Joachim Whaley, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. In: Erudition and the Republic of Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2017), pp. 230-232.