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Apologia della chiesa protestante contro le diffamazioni del Sig. de Haller nella di lui lettera a sua famiglia.

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First edition, extremely rare, of this scathing condemnation of Professor Karl Ludwig von Haller’s letter to his family, published the previous year, relating his decision to convert to Catholicism, written by Kant’s successor at Königsberg.

Krug (1770–1842) taught at Wittenberg before succeeding Kant (whose ideas he greatly admired) as chair of philosophy at Königsberg, and from 1809 to his death was a philosophy professor at Leipzig; he was also the husband of Kleist’s ex-fiancée. Haller’s Lettre … à sa famille, pour lui déclarer son retour à l’église catholique, written in the aftermath of his 1819 conversations with the Bishop of Lausanne, sparked immediate controversy and lost him his positions in the Swiss Grand Council and the Privy Council of the Bernese Republic.

Here, Krug describes Haller’s letter as both uninteresting and irrelevant to the wider world (arguing that the matter should be between Haller and God), critiquing the letter for attacking the Protestant church and dissecting various passages from Haller’s letter, suggesting that he takes issue with Haller as an individual rather than with the Catholic Church as a whole. The title-page claims that the work was submitted to the examination of the ‘Protestant theological faculties of Germany and Switzerland by the author’ (trans.).

OCLC finds a single copy, at the Kantonsbibliothek Graubünden in Switzerland, to which we add another, at the Kulturarchiv Oberengadin. Not on Library Hub; not in KVK; not in OPAC SBN.