My dissertation traces the circulation of German-language texts in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Focusing on the print publications of the Pennsylvania printer Johann Christoph Saur (born in 1695 in Ladenburg), who was one of the most successful and influential German printers in the Americas before the Age of Revolutions, I seek to uncover the multifaceted meanings of American-made print during the German Enlightenment. Saur’s printed works found a broad circulation not only among the vast German-speaking diaspora in early America, but also among the German elite in central Europe. During my stay at the HAB, I am investigating how and why Saur’s imprint landed in the library collections of the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, and what this can tell us about the understudied relationship between the German Enlightenment and the German-speaking diaspora.