Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany – VOLTAIRE STUDIO

Origin: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

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A collection of polemical and critical works concerning Christianity compiled by Christian Masius, 1752

The MS was compiled by Christian Masius (1711-1787), professor in Erlangen from 1768 onwards. The compilation includes works by:

Du Jurien
Franz Hollmann
d’Argens
Alexander Pope
Harris
Voltaire
David Hume
Plato
Bumet

Repository: Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Date: 1752

CMV: cmv37450

Draft a letter from Antoine Honneste d’Adhémar de Monteil de Brunier, marquis d’Adhémar to Voltaire, written from Erlangen and dated 17 March 1757, with autograph corrections [D7202b]

D’Adhémar begins by discussing the royal reception of Voltaire’s Histoire universelle, adding that the Queen was touched by the brevity of the eulogy because friendship is not always fair. He then questions why Voltaire names Monteil, as the Bishop Legate to the Pope in the first Crusades as this Bishop was instead an Adhemar ancestor. He goes on to discuss Adhemar genealogy.

Repository: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Prussian Privy State Archives

Date: 17 March 1757

CMV: cmv37067