 Given the Swedes’ past hostilities with Brandenburg, Pufendorf’s thorough knowledge of their archives, and the fact that he had yet to complete his history of Charles X. Gustav, the Swedes were loath to send him to Berlin. However, after considerable delay he was given what was technically a leave of absence (Döring 1996b, Riches 2004, 2013). He arrived in Berlin in early 1688, actually to prepare a history of Frederick William (who died later that year) but formally as an aulic and privy councillor, positions with greater status at court than royal historian. During the next six years Pufendorf completed his history of the Great Elector (Fr. Wilh. 1695b) and began an account of his successor, Frederick III (1657–1713), which is notable for its long (and unregarded) narrative of the 1688 English Revolution (Pufendorf 1784, see Seidler 1996). Moreover, he prepared a revised edition of The Present State of Germany (published by Nikolaus Gundling in 1706) and he wrote The Divine Feudal Law (Feciale 1695a), a work on inter-confessional reconciliation (among Lutherans and Calvinists) and, barring that, religious and political toleration. In 1694 Pufendorf returned briefly to Sweden to arrange for the publication of his On the Deeds of Charles Gustav, King of Sweden (C. Gust. 1696), to collect a baronetcy (thus, his Freiherr status), and to conduct some diplomatic business between the two monarchs. A stroke or aneurism while in Stockholm led to other medical complications that resulted in his death, in Berlin, on Oct. 26, 1694. Quite appropriately, given his life-long interest in lay theology and his involvement with informal religious gatherings called collegia pietatis, as well as his emphasis on the biblical and moral dimensions of religion rather than its doctrinal aspects, the funeral sermon at the Nikolai-Kirche, where he lies buried, was delivered by his close friend, Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705), one of the founders of German Pietism.