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A Scandal in Konigsberg
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192 pages, Hardcover
Published September 4, 2025
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December 20, 2025
Is there anything Chris Clark can't do?
December 7, 2025
The book tells the micro-history of two Lutheran clergymen, Johann Ebel and Heinrich Diestel, being falsely accused of founding a sect, denouncing the church and adultery. While having no friends among bureaucrats in Prussia and Berlin and having the press jumping on the accusation and therefore turning it into a national scandal, these 2 men lose their posts and reputation, even after that they are found not guilty in the second trial many years later.
With his amazing documentation of a case in 1834, Christopher Clark gives us a detailed photograph about how the society and politics looked in 1830s Prussia. He also does a good job at telling the daily life in Königsberg in that era and how the German society was shifting in a very politically dense age.
With his amazing documentation of a case in 1834, Christopher Clark gives us a detailed photograph about how the society and politics looked in 1830s Prussia. He also does a good job at telling the daily life in Königsberg in that era and how the German society was shifting in a very politically dense age.
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