Ueber geheime Verbindungen im preussischen Staat, und deren Denunciation.

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8vo, pp. [iii], 3-32; contemporary blue wrappers, remains of library shelf mark to upper wrapper; faint private library stamp to title. First and only edition of this important pamphlet by the German historian and statesman Niebuhr, published in response and opposition to Schmalz' publication 'Berichtigung ? über politische Vereine', a wholesale condemnation of freemasons and similar secret societies in Prussia. Schmalz (1760-1831), rector of Berlin University and well-known jurist, had maintained that the prevalence of revolutionary sentiment in Prussia was due to underground secret associations, similar to the Tugendbund. Niebuhr, together with Schleiermacher and other historians, published this refutation, rejected Schmalz's statement that there were secret societies active in Prussia, and demanded a thorough investigation of such claims. Niebuhr's rebuttal was generally well received because of its factual superiority (ADB XXXI, 624 ff.). This escalated into a veritable pamphlet war, and led in January 1816 to a total ban of publications on secret societies, and an order being issued prohibiting all secret societies. The German historian and statesman Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831) is of great importance in modern historiography. Goedeke VI, 335, 6; Wolfstieg II, 27472; uncommon. N° de ref. del artículo 2886

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