Die ersten deutschen cbersetzungen von Machiavellis Principe

The article reconstructs the genesis and cultural background of the three German translations of Machiavelli's The Prince up to the 19th century and draws comparisons between them: Albrecht von Lenz\u2019s handwritten translation of 1692; the anonymous but first printed translation of 1714; and the one by Wolf Balthasar von Steinwehr made for the German version of Frederick the Great\u2019s Anti-Machiavel (1741)