List of the literary works of Frederick the Great

This list contains the literary works of King Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) based on the two relevant complete editions in French from 1846–56 and in German from 1913/14.

French edition

Oeuvres

Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand , ed. by Johann David Erdmann Preuß , 30 vols., Berlin: Decker, 1846–1856.
- Vol. 1–7: Œuvres historiques :
  - Vol. 1 :
    - Memories for the history of the Brandebourg maison
    - You militaire depuis son institution jusqu'à la fin du règne de Frédéric-Guillaume
    - De la superstition et de la religion ; Des mœurs, des coutumes, de l'industrie, des progrès de l'esprit humain dans les arts et dans les sciences
    - You gouvernement ancien et modern du Brandebourg
  - Vol. 2 :
    - Histoire de mon temps , chap. I-VII
    - Relation de la bataille de Chotusitz
  - Vol. 3 :
    - Histoire de mon temps , chap. VIII-XIV
    - Appendice
  - Vol. 4 :
    - Histoire de la guerre de sept ans , Chapters I-IX
    - Appendice
  - Vol. 5 :
    - Histoire de la guerre de sept ans , chap. X-XV
  - Vol. 6 :
    - Mémoires depuis la paix de Hubertsbourg 1763, jusqu'a la fin du partage de la Pologne, 1775
    - De ce qui s'est passé de plus important en europe depuis l'année 1774 jusqu'à l'année 1778
    - Mémoires de la guerre de 1778
    - Correspondance de l'Empereur et de l'Impératrice-Reine avec le Roi au sujet de la succession de la Bavière
    - Appendice
    - Testament du Roi, facsimilé
  - Vol. 7 :
    - Éloges
    - Reflections on the talents militaires et sur le caractère de Charles XII, roi de Suède
    - De la littérature Allemande, des défauts qu'on peut lui reprocher, etc.
    - Avant-propos de l'extrait du dictionnaire historique et critique de Bayle
    - Avant-propos de l'abrégé de l'histoire ecclésiastique de Fleury
- Vol. 8–9: Œuvres philosophiques :
  - Vol. 8 :
    - Considérations sur l'état présent du corps politique de l'europe
    - Mémoire de M. le marquis de Fénelon, ambassadeur du roi de France
    - Dissertation on l'innocence des vereurs de l'esprit
    - Avant-propos sur la Henriade de M. de Voltaire
    - L'Antimachiavel, ou examen du prince de Machiavel
    - Réfutation du prince de Machiavel
    - L'Antimachiavel, Avant-Propos, facsimilé
  - Vol. 9 :
    - Miroir des princes, ou instruction du Roi pour le jeune duc Charles-Eugène de Würtemberg
    - Dissertation on the raisons d'établir ou d'abroger les lois
    - Instruction au major Borcke
    - Discours sur les satiriques
    - Discours on the libelles
    - Reflections on the reflections des géomètres sur la poésie
    - Instruction pour la direction de l'académie des nobles à Berlin
    - Essai sur l'amour-propre envisagé comme principe de morale
    - Dialogue de morale à l'usage de la jeune noblesse
    - Lettre sur l'éducation
    - Examen de l'essai sur les préjugés
    - Examination critique du système de la nature
    - Discours de l'utilité des sciences et des arts dans un état
    - Exposé du Gouvernement Prussien
    - Essai sur les formes de gouvernement et sur les devoirs des sovverains
    - Lettres sur l'amour de la patrie, ou correspondance d'Anapistémon et de Philopatros
- Vol. 10–15: Œuvres poétiques :
  - Vol. 10 :
    - Odes
    - Stances, paraphrase de l'Ecclésiaste
    - Epîtres
    - L'art de la guerre, poëme
    - Appendice
  - Vol. 11 :
    - Épîtres familières
    - Poésies miscellaneous
    - Lettres en vers et prose.
    - Le palladion, poëme grave
  - Vol. 12 : various seals
  - Vol. 13 : various seals
  - Vol. 14 : various seals
  - Vol. 15 : various seals
- Vol. 16-27: Correspondance :
  - Vol. 16 : Correspondence from the years 1731 to 1741
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. de Natzmer
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec madame de Wreech
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Seckendorff
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Grumbkow
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Schulenbourg
    - Lettre de Frédéric au comte de Manteuffel
    - Lettres de Frédéric à M. Achard
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Beausobre
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Camas
    - Lettre de Frédéric à Chrétien Wolff (23 May 1740)
    - Lettres de Frédéric à M. Eller (3, 13 and 25 may 1740)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec madame de Rocoulle
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Fontenelle
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Schaumbourg-Lippe
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Rollin
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Suhm
    - Notice de l'Éditeur et Supplément
  - Vol. 17 : Correspondence from the years 1733 to 1762
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la marquise du Châtelet
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. Jordan
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. Duhan de Jandun
    - Correspondance de Frédéric with Maurice de Saxe
    - Lettres de Frédéric au marquis de Valori
    - Lettres de Frédéric au comte de Gotter
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Maupertuis
    - Lettre de Frédéric à madame Thérèse (October 1757)
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. Lichtwer, (2 mars 1758)
    - Lettres de Frédéric au feld-maréchal de Kalckstein (juin 1747 et 21 juin 1758)
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. Sulzer (juin 1761)
    - Lettre de Frédéric au baron de Schönaich (September 24, 1761)
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. André de Gudowitsch (May 22, 1762)
  - Vol. 18 : Correspondence from the years 1739 to 1769
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte Algarotti
    - Lettre de Frédéric à la veuve du général de Forcade
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec madame de Camas
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Jariges (7 et 8 août 1766)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la duchesse Louise-Dorothée de Saxe-Gotha
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Catherine II, impératrice de Russie
    - Frédéric au biographe du général Paoli
  - Vol. 19 : Correspondence from the years 1742 to 1771
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le marquis d'Argens
    - Appendice
  - Vol. 20 : Correspondence from the years 1736 to 1778
    - Lettres de Frédéric à Gresset (24 octobre 1740 - 27 septembre 1769)
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. Steinbart (16 mars 1770)
    - Lettres de Frédéric à la comtesse de Skorzewska (22 octobre 1768 - 20 july 1770)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. Darget (May 1749 - 6 September 1771)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le baron de Pöllnitz
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le baron de la Motte Fouqué
    - Lettres de Frédéric à M. de Krockow
    - Lettres de Frédéric au comte Ignace Krasicki
    - Lettre de Frédéric au baron de Riedesel
    - Lettre de Frédéric au pasteur Erman
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. de Domaschnew
    - Lettre de Frédéric à M. de Moulines
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. Léonard Euler
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Hoditz
    - Correspondance de Frédéric with my lord Marischal
    - Appendice (with letters from Jean Jacques Rousseau )
  - Vol. 21-23: Correspondance de Frédéric avec Voltaire
    - Vol. 21 : 1736-1740
    - Vol. 22 : 1740-1753
    - Vol. 23 : 1754-1778
  - Vol. 24: Correspondence from the years 1746 to 1783
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Catt
    - Lettre de Frédéric au comte d'Argental
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec l'eléctrice Marie-Antonie de Saxe
    - Lettre de Frédéric au comte de Solms-Sonnewalde
    - Lettres de Frédéric à madame de Bülow, née de Forestier
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec M. de Hertzberg
    - Lettre de Frederic à M. Lion Gomperz
    - Lettre de Frédéric au général Eliott
    - Lettres de Frédéric à M. de Zastrow (12 janvier 1778 - 3 août 1783)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec d'Alembert , 1746–74
  - Vol. 25 : Correspondence from the years 1735 to 1786
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec d'Alembert , 1775-1783
    - Lettre de Frédéric à Garve (November 1783)
    - Lettre de Frédéric au comte de Lamberg (February 26, 1784)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le chevalier de Chasot
    - Lettres de Frédéric à MF-C. Achard
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Finckenstein
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Mirabeau (22 janvier - 15 avril 1786)
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le baron de Grimm
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le marquis de Condorcet
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec chevalier de Zimmermann
    - Supplément aux dix volumes de la correspondance de Frédéric avec ses amis :
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Manteuffel
      - Lettre de M. Duhan de Jandun à Frédéric
      - Lettre du baron de la Motte Fouqué à Frédéric
      - Lettre de Gresset à Frédéric
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Rottembourg
      - Appendice
      - Lettres de Frédéric au field-maréchal comte de Schwerin
      - Lettre de Frédéric au field-maréchal Jacques Keith (3 février 1758)
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la princesse Jeanne-Élisabeth d'Anhalt-Zerbst
      - Lettre de Frédéric à Sir Andrew Mitchell
      - Lettre de Frédéric à lieutenant-général de Krockow
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la duchesse Louise-Dorothée de Saxe-Gotha
      - Lettres de Frédéric à la comtesse de Skorzewska
  - Vol. 26 : Friedrich's correspondence with his wife, mother and brothers from the years 1736 to 1786
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la Reine Élisabeth sa femme
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la Reine Sophie sa mère
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec son frère le prince de Prusse
    - Correspondance de Frédéric avec son frère le prince Henri
    - Lettres de Frédéric à son frère le prince Ferdinand
  - Vol. 27 : Friedrich's correspondence with other family members
    - Teilbd. 27/1: Friedrich's correspondence with his sisters
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec sa sœur Wilhelmine, margrave de Baireuth
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec sa sœur Frédérique, margrave d'Ansbach
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec sa sœur Charlotte, duchesse de Brunswic
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec sa sœur Sophie, margrave de Schwedt
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec sa sœur Ulrique, Reine de Suéde
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec sa sœur Amélie, abbesse de Quedlinbourg
    - Teilbd. 27/2: Frederick's correspondence with distant relatives
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Marie-Dorotheé, veuve du margrave Albert de Brandebourg
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le margrave Henri
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le margrave Charles
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le duc Charles de Brunswic
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le prince Frédéric-Auguste de Brunswic
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec le duc Ferdinand de Brunswic
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec Gustave III roi de Suède
      - Lettres de Frédéric à la princesse Sophie-Albertine de Suède
      - Lettres au prince Guillaume V d'Orange
      - Lettre de la princesse Wilhelmine d'Orange à Frédéric
      - Lettres de Frédéric au prince Guillaume IV. D'Orange
      - Correspondance de Frédéric avec la landmargrave Caroline de Hesse-Darmstadt
    - Teilbd. 27/3: German-language correspondence of Friedrich
      - Friedrich's correspondence with King Friedrich Wilhelm I, his father
      - Friedrich's correspondence with The Secret Chamberlain Fredersdorf
      - Friedrich's letters to Abbot Tobias Stusche
      - Friedrich's letter to Frau von Manteuffel (December 18, 1730)
      - Friedrich's letter to Captain von Hacke
      - Friedrich's letters to Lieutenant von der Gröben
      - Friedrich's letters to the Consistorial-Rath Reinbeck
      - Friedrich's letter to the Budget Minister von Viereck
      - Friedrich's letter to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau
      - Friedrich's letter to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau
      - Friedrich's correspondence with Count von Dönhoff on Quittainen
      - Instruction for Lieutenant General von Finck
      - Friedrich's letter to Colonel von der Heyde
      - Friedrich's letter to Baron HA von la Motte Fouqué
      - Friedrich's letter to Lieutenant General von Ramin
      - Friedrich's letter to the Conrector Moritz
      - Friedrich's letter to the chamber musician JP Kirnberger
      - Friedrich's letter to Doctor Bloch
      - Friedrich's letter to Professor Myller
      - Friedrich's letter to Professor Müchler
      - Friedrich's letter to Rector Heynatz
      - Friedrich's letters to the widowed Frau von Troschke
      - attachment
      - Supplément aux œuvres historiques de Frédéric
      - Supplément à la correspondance de Frédéric avec ses amis :
        
        Lettre du comte de Rottembourg à Frédéric
        
        Correspondance de Frédéric avec le comte de Hoditz
        
        Lettres de d'Alembert à Frédéric
        
        Correspondance de Frédéric avec l'électrice Marie-Antonie de Saxe
        
        Lettre de Frédéric à Catherine II, impératrice de Russie
        
        Correspondance de Frédéric avec le chevalier de Chasot
- Vol. 28–30: Œuvres militaires :
  - Vol. 28 :
    - The principes géneraux de la guerre
    - Avant-propos de l'Extrait tiré des Commentaires du chevalier Folard sur l'Histoire de Polybe
    - Pensées et règles générales pour la guerre
    - Instruction pour le prince Henri, chargé du commandement de l'armée en Saxe
    - Disposition préalable pour le maréchal Keith, en cas que les ennemis viennent attaquer le camp du Roi
    - Disposition for the colonels d'artillerie Dieskau et Moller
    - Réflexions sur la tactique et sur quelques parties de la guerre, ou Réflexions sur quelques changements dans la façon de faire la guerre
    - Instruction for the généraux-majors de cavalerie
    - Appendice
    - Plans militaire
  - Vol. 29 :
    - Elements of castramétrie et de tactique
    - Avant-propos
    - Règles de ce qu'on exige d'un bon commandeur de bataillon en temps de guerre
    - Reflections on the projections de campagne
    - Des marches d'armée, et de ce qu'il faut observer à cet égard
    - Project de campagne
    - Instruction for the Prince Heréditaire de Brunswic
    - Réflexions sur les mesures à prendre au cas d'une guerre nouvelle avec les Autrichiens, en supposant qu'ils suivent la même méthode d'une defensive rigide comme dans la derniere campagne de 1778
    - Plans militaire
  - Vol. 30 :
    - Instruction for the Lieutenant Colonel from the Corps Cadets von Oelsnitz
    - Instruction according to which the General-Field Marshal Prince von Anhalt Liebden have to pay attention to the command of the Corps d'armée that his Royal Majesty will have specially formed
    - Instruction for the infantry regiments and Instruction for the cavalry and dragoons regiments
    - Orders and dispositions, according to which Lieutenant General von Kalckstein should pay attention to the opening of the tranches in front of Brieg and arrange everything properly, including instructing everyone, who is ordered to do so, what he has to do
    - Instruction for the cavalry in the event of a bataille
    - Instruction for the colonels and all officers of the Hussar regiments
    - Disposition for the entire regiments of infantry, as they are to behave in the march against the enemy that has occurred and in the subsequent battle
    - Instruction for the General-Field-Marshal Prince von Anhalt Liebden, because of the commandos in Upper Silesia
    - Regulations on what is to be observed when the army camps
    - Regulations for the cavalry and dragoons, which will be changed in the exercises
    - Instruction for the infantry
    - Orders for all the generals of the infantry and cavalry, as well as hussars, as well as for the staff officers and commanders of the battalions
    - Disposition how the officers of the cavalry, both the generals and the commanders of the escadrons, are to behave in a meeting against the enemy
    - Disposition, what form the artillery has to behave in a main action with the enemy
    - Disposition, as it is to be kept unchangeable with His Royal Majesty in the Prussian Army during the preceding battle, according to which both the generals and other commanding officers have to pay attention and observe such things
    - Instruction for the majors-general of the infantry
    - Instruction for the majors-generals of the cavalry
    - Instruction for Colonel Lattorff, as commandant in Cosel
    - Instruction for Prince Ferdinand von Braunschweig Liebden, as governor of Magdeburg Fortress
    - Instructions for General-Feldmarschall von Lehwaldt, as General en Chef of all the troops in Prussia, which he, according to the Plein-pouvoir given to him, has to do and observe in the event of a war there
    - Instruction of the king for his quartermaster. King's aphorisms on fortification, camp and combat art
    - Order to Lieutenant General Count zu Dohna
    - Instruction which the king dictated to the field engineer in his room in the Breslau winter quarters
    - Instruction for the majors-general of the infantry
    - Instruction for the commanders of the cavalry regiments, how such should behave because of the minor service in the garrisons, the discipline of the common man, the strict discipline, the exercise of the regiments, good supervision and discipline of the officers, and because of the economy
    - Instruction for the commanders of the infantry regiments, how such should behave because of the minor service in the garrisons, because of the discipline of the common man, the strict discipline, the exercise of the regiments, good supervision and discipline of the officers, and the economy
    - Instruction for the artillery
    - Instruction for the commanders of the regiments and battalions
    - Instruction for the commanders of the Cuirassier, Dragoons and Hussar regiments
    - Instruction for Major-General von Buddenbrock on what to do at Schweidnitz
    - Instruction for the inspectors of the cavalry, which they are to communicate to all commanders of the cavalry
    - Instruction for the Inspecteurs of the Infantry
    - Instruction for the inspecteurs of the cavalry
    - Disposition for the governor or commanders of the Schweidnitz Fortress, in which case they should be attended
    - Instruction for my artillery on how to set up fire on occasion
    - Instruction for the free regiments or light infantry regiments
    - Instruction for the Silesian infantry inspection of the Major General von Götzen

Political Correspondence

The political correspondence of Frederick the Great , 47 vols. And a supplementary volume, ed. by Johann Gustav Droysen u. a., Cologne: Böhlau (formerly Berlin: Duncker & Humblot; Berlin: Reimar Hobbing ; Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer), 1879–2003.
- Supplementary volume: The political testaments of Frederick the Great , Berlin: Hobbing, 1920.

German edition

The works of Frederick the Great. In German translation , ed. by Gustav Berthold Volz, 10 vols., Berlin: Hobbing, 1913 f.
- Vol. 1:
  - Memories of the history of the House of Brandenburg
  - The political state of Brandenburg then and now
  - Superstition and religion
  - Customs, Customs and Industry. The Advancement of the Human Spirit in the Arts and Sciences
  - attachment
- Vol. 2:
  - Memories (1742)
  - Story of my time (1775)
  - attachment
- Vol. 3:
  - History of the Seven Years War , chap. 1-9
  - Attachment :
    - Memorandum on the Current Political Situation in Germany (June 1756)
    - Drafts for the war manifestos
    - Conversation between the King and the Cabinet Minister, Count Podewils (July 21, 1756)
    - Memorandum for England (July 1756)
    - The three inquiries in Vienna
    - Explain the reasons that Se. Your Majesty Forced the King of Prussia to Prevent the Attacks of the Vienna Court (August 1756)
    - Instructions for Field Marshal Schwerin (August 2, 1756)
    - Letter from the King to Field Marshal Schwerin about the Battle of Lobositz (October 2, 1756)
    - Memorandum for England (October 29, 1756)
    - Memorandum on the present situation in Europe and the measures to be taken by the allies in order to gain the upper hand over their enemies in the next campaign (November 1756)
    - Campaign Plan for the Allied Army (November 1756)
    - Brief Reasons for an Austrian Ambassador to London to Obtain Subsidies from England in 1763 (July 1757)
    - Justification of my Political Conduct (July 1757)
    - The reasons for my military behavior (July 1757)
    - Operation Plan for Field Marshal Lehwaldt (November 9, 1757)
    - Speech of the King before the Battle of Leuthen (December 3, 1757)
    - Memorandum for England (January 1758)
    - Instructions for Prince Heinrich of Prussia (March 11, 1758)
    - Instructions for Lieutenant General Count Christoph Dohna (April 2, 1758)
    - Provisional disposition for Field Marshal Keith in case the enemy attacks the King's camp (June 30, 1758)
    - Disposition for the artillery colonels Dieskau and Moller (June 30, 1758)
    - Plan of a battle against the Austrians (July 1758)
- Vol. 4:
  - History of the Seven Years War , chap. 10-17
  - attachment
    - Instruction for General Wedell (July 1759)
    - Instructions for Prince Heinrich of Prussia (July 1759)
    - Power of attorney and instructions for General Finck (August 1759)
    - Decree of the King to the Secret Legation Councilor Baron von Knyphausen in London (October 12, 1759)
    - Thoughts on Peace (January 1760)
    - Military Considerations (February 1760)
    - Thoughts on the Enemy Plans and Our Operations (April 5, 1760)
    - Reflections on the Proposals of the French and Their Allies (April 12, 1761)
    - Instructions for Prince Heinrich of Prussia (April 21, 1761)
    - Instructions for Colonel Freiherr von der Goltz (February 7, 1762)
  - Battle sketches for the two Silesian Wars
  - Battle sketches for the Seven Years War
  - Outline sketch of the theater of war
- Vol. 5:
  - Memories from the Peace of Hubertusburg to the end of the division of Poland
  - The most important events from 1774 to 1778
  - The War of the Bavarian Succession
  - Memorandum (December 19, 1782)
  - About Politics (November 1784)
  - On the history of the German Princes' Union
  - Explanation of the Reasons which Induced His Majesty the King of Prussia to take just reprisals against the Prince-Bishop of Liège (September 11, 1740)
  - Draft to "Explain the reasons for which the king moved into Silesia" (December 1740)
  - Letter from Count N. to a friend (August 1742)
  - Letter from Prague to a private citizen (end of February 1743)
  - Draft to "explain the reasons for which the king feels compelled to provide the emperor with auxiliary troops" (August 1744)
  - Draft of the manifest against the Dresden court (August 1745)
  - Letters to the Public (March 1753)
  - Letter from Cardinal Richelieu to the King of Prussia (October 1756)
  - Letter from a Swiss to a Venetian Nobile (September 1758)
  - Letter from a secretary of Count Kaunitz to a secretary of Count Cobenzl (September 1758)
  - Letter from the Marquise of Pompadour to the Queen of Hungary (early 1759)
  - On the satirical writers (March 1759)
  - About the diatribes (April 1759)
  - Breve from the Pope to Field Marshal Daun (May 1759)
  - Congratulations from Prince Soubise to Field Marshal Daun on the sword received from the Pope (May 1759)
  - Letter from a Prussian officer to a friend in Berlin (July 1759)
  - Letter from a Swiss to a Genoese (February 1760)
  - Letter from an Austrian officer to a friend in Switzerland (spring 1761)
  - Newspaper Article (March 1767)
  - Conversation in the dead between the Duke of Choiseul, Count Struensee and Socrates (February 1772)
  - Conversation in the dead between Prince Eugene, Lord Marlborough and Prince Liechtenstein (1773)
  - Overview sketch of the campaign in Bohemia in 1778
  - Position of the king's army at Arnau and Hohenelbe 26.8. until 9/8/1778
  - Sketch for the investigation report by an officer from King Friedrich's staff
- Vol. 6:
  - The general principles of war and their application to the tactics and discipline of the Prussian troops (1748)
  - Thoughts and General Rules for War (1755)
  - Reflections on Tactics and Some Parts of the War, or Reflections on Some Changes in the Manner of Warfare (December 27, 1758)
  - Principles of camp art and tactics (1770)
  - About war marches and what to watch out for (1777)
  - Considerations about the campaign plans (1775)
  - The 1768 military will
  - From the Instruction for Major General of the Infantry (August 14, 1748)
  - Instruction for the major generals of the infantry (February 12, 1759)
  - From the instruction for the commanders of the infantry regiments (May 11, 1763)
  - Rules for a Good Battalion Commander in War (April 3, 1773)
  - Instruction for the Inspecteurs of the Infantry Regiments (April 6, 1780)
  - Instruction for the Inspecteurs of the Infantry (July 25, 1781)
  - Instruction for the Free Regiments or Light Infantry Regiments (December 5, 1783)
  - Disposition of How the Officers of the Cavalry should behave in a meeting against the enemy (July 25, 1744)
  - From the Instruction for Major General of the Cavalry (August 14, 1748)
  - Instruction for Major Generals of the Cavalry (March 16, 1759)
  - From the Instruction for the Commanders of the Cavalry Regiments (May 11, 1763)
  - Instruction for the Cavalry Inspecteurs (July 20, 1779)
  - Instruction for the colonels and all officers of the Hussar regiments (March 21, 1742)
  - Disposition of what form the artillery has to behave in a main action with the enemy (August 1744)
  - From the instruction for the artillery (May 3, 1768)
  - Instruction for my artillery (May 1782)
  - Instruction for Colonel Lattorff as commandant in Kosel (December 1753)
  - Plan for the defense of Silesia against Bohemia (after 1745)
  - Memorandum on how to force the opponent to leave his position on the Katzbach (after 1763)
  - Preface to the excerpt from Chevalier Folard's commentaries on the story of Polybius (1753)
  - Preface to the excerpt from Quincy's "War History of Louis XIV." (October 5, 1771)
  - Memorial speech for Goltz (1748)
  - Commemorative speech in silence (1753)
  - Reflections on the military talents and character of Charles XII. (1759)
  - The art of war. A didactic poem
- Vol. 7:
  - The Antimachiavell
  - The political will of 1752
  - Political Writings :
    - Letter from Crown Prince Friedrich to the Chamberlain von Natzmer (February 1731)
    - Prince's mirror or instruction from the king for the young Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg (1744)
    - Instructions for Major Graf Borcke (September 24, 1751)
    - Instructions for Behnisch (July 26, 1773)
    - Outline of the Prussian government and the principles on which it is based, along with some political considerations (1776)
    - Reflections on the Political State of Europe (May 9, 1782)
    - Considerations on the Prussian Finance Administration (October 20, 1784)
    - Forms of Government and Ruler's Duties (1777)
    - Critique of the treatise "On Prejudice" (1770)
    - Critique of the "System of Nature" (1770)
  - Personal wills :
    - Letter from the King to the Cabinet Minister von Podewils (March 1741)
    - Letter from the King to the Prince of Prussia August Wilhelm (April 8, 1741)
    - The will of January 11, 1752
    - Secret instructions for the cabinet minister Count Finckenstein (January 10, 1757)
    - The King's Testament before the Battle of Leuthen (November 28, 1757)
    - Letter from the King to Prince Heinrich of Prussia (August 10, 1758)
    - Order my generals of this army how they should behave in the event that I should be shot to death (August 22, 1758)
    - The will of January 8, 1769
- Vol. 8:
  - Literary-philosophical writings
    - Preface to Voltaire's Henriade (1739)
    - On the harmlessness of the error of the spirit (1738)
    - On the reasons for introducing or abolishing laws (1749)
    - Preface to the extract from Bayle's historical-critical dictionary (1764)
    - Self-love as a moral principle (1770)
    - On the Use of the Arts and Sciences in the State (1772)
    - Reflections on mathematicians' reflections on poetry (1762)
    - About German literature. The defects of which it can be blamed, their causes and the means of improving them. Translated from French (transl. Christian Konrad Wilhelm Dohm ) (1780) ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  - Theological pamphlets
    - Preface to the excerpt from Fleury's church history (1766)
    - Dedication of the "Life of Apollonios of Tyana" by Philostratus to Pope Clement XIV (1774)
    - Report of Phihihu, emissary of the Emperor of China in Europe (1760)
    - Letter from Nicolini to Franculoni, Procurator of San Marco, and Breve from Pope Clement XIV to the Mufti Osman Molla (1771)
    - Pastoral letter to the Reverend Bishop of Aix, in which the godless works of the pp Marquis d'Argens are condemned and his banishment from the kingdom is recognized (1766)
    - Apostolic and theological commentary on the sacred prophecies of the holy author of "Bluebeard" (1779)
    - Sermon on the Last Judgment (1759)
    - Heavenly Jerusalem. A Schwank for Voltaire (1770)
    - Dream (1777)
  - Satires :
    - Eulogy for the shoemaker Jakob Mathias Reinhart (1759)
    - Praise of Indolence (1768)
  - Memorial speeches :
    - Memorial speech for Prince Heinrich the Younger (1767)
    - Commemorative speech on Jordan (1746)
    - Commemorative speech on La Mettrie (1752)
    - Commemorative speech in Knobelsdorff (1754)
    - Letter from an academic in Berlin to an academic in Paris (1752)
    - Commemorative Speech for Voltaire (1778)
  - Educational writings :
    - Instruction for the Académie des Nobles in Berlin (1765)
    - About education (1769)
    - Dialogue about morals. A moral catechism for use by noble youth (1770)
    - Letters about love for the country (1779)
  - attachment
    - To the treatise "On German Literature"
    - Cabinet Decree on Education to Minister Baron von Zedlitz (September 5, 1779)
- Vol. 9:
  - Odes and Epistles
  - The Palladion. A profound poem (E. König)
  - The school in the world. Comedy in three acts (W. Rath)
- Vol. 10: Poems

Bilingual edition

Anne Baillot , Günther Lottes and Brunhilde Wehinger (eds.): Potsdam edition / Édition de Potsdam (German-French). 12 volumes. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007. Published so far:
- Volume VI: Philosophical Writings , 2007.
  - The Antimachiavel and others

Other works

Conversations with De Catt

Conversations with Frederick the Great. Memoirs and diaries by Heinrich de Catt (= publications from the Royal Prussian State Archives , vol. 22), ed. v. Reinhold Koser , Leipzig: Hirzel 1884 (French).
Conversations with Catt , ed. v. Willy Schüßler, Leipzig: Dieterich 1940 (German).

Others

Memories of His Life , ed. v. Friedrich Eyssenhardt, 2 vols., Leipzig: Grunow 1886.
The political testaments of the Hohenzollern , ed. v. Georg Küntzel and Martin Haß, 2 vols., Leipzig: Teubner 1919 f.
His legacy. Friedrich as state artist , selected by Georg Heinrich, Leipzig: Kummer o. J. (~ 1925/30).
Selected writings , ed. v. Ulrike-Christine Sander, Fischer-TB 90307, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-90370-2

Web links

Literature by and about Frederick the Great in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Frederick the Great in the German Text Archive
Oeuvres de Frédéric le Grand (magnificent edition), works of Frederick the Great and other French and German editions at the University of Trier
Potsdam edition
Gustav Berthold Volz (ed.): The works of Frederick the Great. In German translation. Ten volumes . Translator: Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski , Willy Rath , Carl Werner von Jordans , Illustrator: Adolph von Menzel . Berlin 1913/1914

Remarks

↑ NB: There is a manual edition as well as a magnificent folio edition of the oeuvres bound in red leather . They are not page concordant. The links provided on Google Books refer to the manual edition. In the manual edition, depending on the edition, several volumes within a department were occasionally combined into one volume.

[1] NB: There is a manual edition as well as a magnificent folio edition of the oeuvres bound in red leather . They are not page concordant. The links provided on Google Books refer to the manual edition. In the manual edition, depending on the edition, several volumes within a department were occasionally combined into one volume.