The Great Elector Receives the Religious Refugees

Just a few weeks after the Edict of Fontainebleau, Frederick William of Brandenburg (1620–1688), known as the "Great Elector", issued the Edict of Potsdam, which was intended to encourage the Huguenots to settle in Brandenburg by guaranteeing them substantial privileges.

Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), "Le grand Electeur reçoit les réfugiés dans ses Etats", etching after Johann Jakob Thurneysen (1636–1711), 11.6 x 18.6 cm, 1782; source: Erman, Jean Pierre / Reclam, Pierre Chrétien Frédéric: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Réfugiés françois dans les Etats du Roi, Berlin 1782, vol. 1, title vignette. Courtesy of the Huguenot Museum in Bad Karlshafen.