Pastorius Bibliography

The following partial bibliography of works about Pastorius and the Beehive is a work in progress.

For bibliographic records on the book list in the Beehive, please consult Lyman Riley’s Books from the Beehive and the accompanying introduction, which the Digital Beehive has OCRed and formatted.

• Brophy, Alfred L. “Beehive: 1696, Francis Daniel Pastorius.” In The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature, edited by Marc Shell and Werner Sollors, 12-41. New York: New York University Press, 2000.


• ———. "‘Ingenium est Fateri per quos profeceris:’ Francis Daniel Pastorius' Young Country Clerk's Collection and Anglo-American Legal Literature, 1682-1716," The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 3, no. 2 (1996): 637-734.


• ———. “The Intellectual World of a Seventeenth-Century Jurist: Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Reconstruction of Pietist Thought.” In German? American? Literature? New Directions in German-American Studies, edited by Winfried Fluck and Werner Sollors, 43-63. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.


• ———. “Notes and Documents: The Quaker Bibliographic World of Francis Daniel Pastorius’s Bee Hive.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 122, no. 3 (July 1998): 241-291.


• ———. “Pastorius, Sichere Nachricht.” In A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, 54-59. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2009.


• Erben, Patrick M. A Harmony of the Spirits. Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2012.


• ———. “‘Honey-Combs’ and ‘Paper-Hives’: Positioning Francis Daniel Pastorius's Manuscript Writings in Early Pennsylvania.” Early American Literature 37, no. 2 (2002): 157-194.


• ———. “Promoting Pennsylvania: Penn, Pastorius, and the Creation of a Transnational Community.” Resources for American Literary Study 29 (2003–2004): 25–65.


• Grafton, Anthony. “The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies: Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook.” The American Historical Review 117, no. 1 (February 2012): 1-39.


• Hirsch, Mildred N. and Dorothy G. Harris. “From the Library of Pastorius.” Bulletin of Friends Historical Association 42, no. 2 (Autumn 1953): 76-84.


• Lambert, Margo M. “Mediation, Assimilation, and German Foundations in North America: Francis Daniel Pastorius as Cultural Broker.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 84, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 141-170.


• Learned, Marion Dexter. “From Pastorius’ Bee-Hive or Bee-Stock.” Americana Germanica 1, no. 4 (1879): 67-110.


• ———. The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius. Philadelphia: Campbell, 1908.


• Meserole, Harrison T. American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.


• Palmieri, Brooke S. “‘What the Bees Have Taken Pains For:’ Francis Daniel Pastorius, The Beehive, and Commonplacing in Colonial Pennsylvania.” Undergraduate Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2009. https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2009/7/


• Pastorius, Francis Daniel. The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader: Writings by an Early American Polymath. Edited by Patrick M. Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019.


• Riley, Lyman W. “Books from the "Beehive" Manuscript of Francis Daniel Pastorius.” Quaker History 83, no. 2 (Fall 1994): 116-129.


• ———. “Books from the 'Beehive' manuscript of Francis Daniel Pastorius." Typescript. Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.


• Toms, DeElla Victoria. “The Intellectual and Literary Background of Francis Daniel Pastorius.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 1953. ProQuest (AAT 0006251).


• Showalter, Shirley Hershey. “‘The Herbal Signs of Nature’s Page’: A Study of Francis Daniel Pastorius’ view of Nature.” Quaker History 71, no. 2 (Fall 1982): 89-99.


• Weaver, John David. “Franz Daniel Pastorius (1651-c.1720): Early Life in Germany with Glimpses to His Removal to Pennsylvania.” PhD diss., University of California, Davis, 1985. ProQuest (AAT 303367541).