"Berkeley in Germany" is a sad story, in which the scandal of Kant's refutation of idealism was only one of the most important points. In Germany Berkeley's name evokes sometimes a vague image — "there was a bishop" — or the trinity" of "Locke, Berkeley, and Hume." Often you will find merely misunderstanding, but more frequently there is great ignorance. Some typical elements of the story are these: the first planned translation of the Three Dialogues in Germany proposed by Gottsched is missing, and perhaps it was never carried out¹ ; and the beginning of a German edition of Berkeley's philosophical works in 1781 was its end, the first volume, including onl" the Three Dialogues, having been the only one published.