The abstract is dedicated to the reception of Demetrius and Antiochus Cantemir‘s work in eighteenth- century Germany. The author highlights the historical and cultural conditions that have aroused interest in the work of Moldovan scholar and his son. The circumstances of publishing The History of the Ottoman Empire and Descriptio Moldaviae of Demetrius Cantemir and The Satires of Antiochus Cantemir are being considered, proving that the knowledge of work of Demetrius and Antiochus Cantemir in eighteenth-century Germany was not achieved from a simple literary curiosity, but for some cultural needs of German society.