As the Enlightenment gained traction in Germany during the second half of the eighteenth century, calls for understanding and mutual tolerance between the religious creeds grew louder. The image shown here – “Enlightened Wisdom, in the Form of the Goddess Minerva, Takes the Faithful of all Religions under her Protection” – is from the Goettingen Pocket Calendar [Goettinger Taschen-Kalender] for 1792. The calendar was published by the influential editor Johann Christian Dietrich (1722-1800), who was also an official bookseller for the Christian multi-confessional Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Among the figures in the foreground are representatives of various faiths, including (from left to right) a Muslim, a Jew with a Torah scroll, and a Catholic monk. Dietrich managed to enlist renowned artists for his illustrations. This etching, for example, was the work of Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801), 1791.