The story of the French Revolution is incomplete without the Prussian-Austrian diplomat and writer Friedrich von Gentz (1764-1832). It was Gentz who provided the best-known German translation of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. This work reveals Gentz as a French Revolution reactionary and a conservative of the Burkean lineage. However, such a characterization is a very simplistic portrayal of this complex figure from the past.