Gábor Gángó presents a working paper on 'The Election Campaign of the Count Palatine Philipp Wilhelm von Neuburg for the Crown of Poland and the Genesis of Leibniz’s Specimen Polonorum'

This study is a chapter from my planned book on Leibniz on the Polish royal election in 1669. On the basis of extended research in the family archives of the German candidate for the Crown of Poland, I reconstruct the wider diplomatic context of Leibniz’s early political treatise. The surviving testimonies of the writing process not only enable us to define the time of the genesis of the treatise with more precision than it was before but they also challenge our belief on Leibniz’s exclusive authorship by testifying a close collaboration between the young Leibniz and his mentor and friend, the Baron Johann Christian von Boineburg.