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This is the first volume in a three-part work recovering the correspondence of an exceptional eighteenth-century medical student from Hamburg, J.A.H. Reimarus, member of a key German Enlightenment family. Partners in the correspondence include his father Hermann Samuel Reimarus, sister Elise, and cousin Hermann Daniel Evers. During his studies in Göttingen, Leiden, Edinburgh, and London, Reimarus encounters such luminaries as Albrecht Haller, Alexander Monro sr. and jr., Erasmus Darwin, James Keir, and William Hunter. The letters discuss student life, shifts in medical training, female higher education, communication and travel, law, currency realities, and political events leading up to the Seven Years War.
Price: $194.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
15 October 2026
ISBN: 9789004427372
Format: Hardcover
Almut Spalding, Ph.D. (2001), University of Illinois, is Professor Emerita of Modern Languages, Illinois College. She published on early modern women, including Elise Reimarus, the Muse of Hamburg (2005), and co-edited The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780(2015).
Paul S. Spalding, Ph.D. (1981), University of Iowa, is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Illinois College. He published on intellectual control, including Seize the Book, Jail the Author (1998) and Lafayette: Prisoner of State (2010), and co-edited The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780 (2015).
Paul S. Spalding, Ph.D. (1981), University of Iowa, is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Illinois College. He published on intellectual control, including Seize the Book, Jail the Author (1998) and Lafayette: Prisoner of State (2010), and co-edited The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780 (2015).