The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader - Writings by an Early American Polymath (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Max Kade Research Institute
Release date:	August 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Patrick Erben (Professor)
Associate editors:	Alfred Brophy • Margo Lambert
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 254mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-271-08328-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-271-08328-X
Barcode:	9780271083285

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