'Apostles of Peace. The Correspondence between Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Voltaire': Even if the 46 letters written by Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Voltaire between 1741 and 1758 may not seem an abundant correspondence it offers nonetheless valuable insights into the exchange of letters as a common interest of the partners. Indeed the dominant common interest during the last period of this correspondence (1756 to 1758) was to reach peace between Prussia and France in the Seven Years War.

Günter Berger is professor emeritus and author. After his PhD in Classical Philology (1971) at his Alma Mater the University of Cologne and his habilitation in Romance literary studies at the University of Bielefeld (1979), he held a full professorship of French and Italian literary studies at the University of Bayreuth from 1986 until 2012. His main areas of research, amongst others, include the French Enlightenment and the French-German cultural transfer. His most relevant publications in this field regard the French Encyclopedia (2013), the correspondence of Countess Caroline of Hessen-Darmstadt with Frederick II, King of Prussia, and Amalia of Prussia (2015), biographies of Duchess Louise Dorothea of Saxony-Gotha (2017, together with Bärbel Raschke) and Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (2018).