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The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader - Writings by an Early American Polymath (Hardcover)
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The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader - Writings by an Early American Polymath (Hardcover)
Series: Max Kade Research Institute
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Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the first German settlers to
Pennsylvania and a touchstone figure of German-American cultural
heritage. This monumental anthology presents a selection of his
many writings in one volume. Pastorius sailed to North America as a
Pietist but found a unique home among the Quakers in Pennsylvania.
Within this early modern religious context, he was a lawyer,
educator, and community leader; a polymath; and a prolific writer
and collector of knowledge. At the turn of the eighteenth century,
Pastorius held one of the largest manuscript collections in North
America and wrote voluminously in multiple languages. His
collecting, curation, and dissemination represents a unique look at
the ways information was stored, processed, and utilized during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in both North America and
Europe. This rich selection of Pastorius’s writings on religion,
education, gardening, law and community, and the colony of
Pennsylvania—as well as letters, poems, and numerous encyclopedic
and bibliographic works—shows the mind of a true humanist in
action. Pastorius’s works have long been important to the
archival study of early German settlement and the Atlantic world.
Now available together, transcribed, translated, and annotated, his
writings will have widespread significance to the study of early
American literature and history.
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