Brown Bag Zoom Lecture

Jennifer Merriman, a PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary, provides an update on research for her dissertation: “Erudite Empire: Circulating Print, Knowledge, and Power in the German Atlantic, 1670-1870.” Merriman studies the circulation of print within the German Atlantic world between 1670 and 1870. Germantown printer Christoph Saur (1695-1758), who operated the most successful German-language printing press in the western hemisphere before the American Revolution, is a critical figure in the project. By focusing on the circulation and consumption of Saur’s imprint across North America and early modern Germany, her dissertation reveals new insights about the Enlightenment and the role of 17th and 18th-century German migration in shaping institutions and intellectual thought on both sides of the Atlantic. Register.

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