Irene Dingel (Mainz): Leibniz als Gegengift – Pierre Bayles Dictionnaire historique et critique im deutschsprachigen Raum*

When Johann Christoph Gottsched produced the first volume of the German translation of Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire histoirque et critique in 1741, he could hardly find enough words of praise for the all-embracing erudition of the French pioneer of the Elightenment, who had died in 1706, and for the work which he had authored. But he did not ignore the reflections which were critical of things religious contained in that Dictionary, of which the public needed to be warned. Bayle’s critical queries were blunted in the Gottsched not only wove in his own commentary in notes, but also cited above all Leibniz, whose writings he recommended as “antidote”.

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