: EC's younger brother died apparantly in the same battle after which Fritz was told Wilhelmine (he learned this on October 18th), burst into tears and had a not so minor breakdown.
1) You seem to have left out a word after "Wilhelmine."
2) We may be thinking of different battles and brothers here.
I'm thinking of Albert, at the battle of Soor, the one in 1745 where Fritz lost his dogs (among many other very important things and people) and had a migraine. If the missing word in your comment was "died", Wilhelmine died the day of Hochkirch, one of Fritz's major and very distressing defeats, in 1758.
Let me check if one of EC's other brothers died at Hochkirch. Yep, the youngest one did. So I think we've got two incidents getting conflated here. Fritz may also have written a terrible condolence letter about youngest brother in 1758, I would have to check.
And it's my bedtime, so I can't put together a chronology of Fritz's emotional isolation just now (maybe tomorrow), but yeah, 1758 was definitely a rough year, with his mother having gone in mid 1757, and Fredersdorf dying in January 1758, Wilhelm in June 1758, and Wilhelmine in October 1758 (on the day of Hochkirch, no less).
"What kind of life is this that's left for him, having banished humanity out of it?"
Yep, that's where the being buried by his dogs comes in.
Speaking of burials, did Fritz ever visit Wilhelmine's burial site? That we know of?
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Re: speaking of musical relationships....
Date: 2019-10-13 06:56 am (UTC)1) You seem to have left out a word after "Wilhelmine."
2) We may be thinking of different battles and brothers here.
I'm thinking of Albert, at the battle of Soor, the one in 1745 where Fritz lost his dogs (among many other very important things and people) and had a migraine. If the missing word in your comment was "died", Wilhelmine died the day of Hochkirch, one of Fritz's major and very distressing defeats, in 1758.
Let me check if one of EC's other brothers died at Hochkirch. Yep, the youngest one did. So I think we've got two incidents getting conflated here. Fritz may also have written a terrible condolence letter about youngest brother in 1758, I would have to check.
And it's my bedtime, so I can't put together a chronology of Fritz's emotional isolation just now (maybe tomorrow), but yeah, 1758 was definitely a rough year, with his mother having gone in mid 1757, and Fredersdorf dying in January 1758, Wilhelm in June 1758, and Wilhelmine in October 1758 (on the day of Hochkirch, no less).
"What kind of life is this that's left for him, having banished humanity out of it?"
Yep, that's where the being buried by his dogs comes in.
Speaking of burials, did Fritz ever visit Wilhelmine's burial site? That we know of?