This volume deals with the intellectual Huguenot Refuge (ca 16801780), discussing its philosophical, theological, historical, and literary aspects in European context. It uses Berlin as its regional point of departure: In the French-Protestant community of Berlin, the erudites rapidly established networks which pursued a very wide range of interest, communicating with every Protestant scholar who might contribute to the dissemination of Enlightened thought.
The first part of the book, therefore, introduces the biggest and most complex centre of the Refuge in Germany. Whereas the second and third part examine different fields of knowledge, the fourth focusses on the topic of dissemination. All contributions present new materialbe it on 'Huguenot' hermeneutics, journalism, history, or on the relationship between Berlin and the United Provinces.

Sandra Pott, Dr. (1998) in German Literature, is currently fellow of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris). She has published on the subject of the Refuge, in Reformierte Morallehren und deutsche Literatur von J. Barbeyrac bis C.M. Wieland (Niemeyer, 2002).
Martin Mulsow, Dr. (1991) in Philosophy, is Privatdozent at the University of Munich and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has published on Renaissance Philosophy and Early Enlightenment, including Moderne aus dem Untergrund (Hamburg, 2002).
Lutz Danneberg is Professor of German Literature at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has published on methodology, logic and hermeneutics, including Säkularisierung in den Wissenschaften: Die Anatomie des Text-Körpers und des Natur-Körpers (Berlin, New York, 2002).