ABSTRACT
In 1698, Leibniz became historian and librarian to the new Elector, Georg Ludwig. The Dowager Electress Sophie of Hannover, Georg Ludwig’s mother, continued to dote on Leibniz in the palace at Herrenhausen, but Georg Ludwig himself was in charge. Leibniz quickly realized that the new Elector was even less sympathetic to his librarian/historian’s irksome ways than his father had been.
