Maybe he also was sincere in offering his older brother guidance re: education
I absolutely think he was. Partly control issues, sure, but I wasn't kidding when I said in some other comment that Fritz was giving AW what he'd wished he had. This is not terribly unlike SD trying to get Wilhelmine the marriage she would have wanted for herself.
for example, Fritz took AW with him and Algarotti when making that trip across the French border
I had either not known or forgotten AW was included! I can *totally* see him coming out of it with the impression as Fritz as the coolest older brother ever.
SD threatened to have little AW whipped by rod if he didn't ask his father for a deserter's life - one of the long fellows
Oh my god. I'd known the second half of this story, but not the first. Was she nice to any of the kids except Fritz? And was that only because FW treated Fritz the worst of all the kids? OMG, this family.
they did NOT see the Austria/France alliance coming
They can be forgiven!
That's so cool about the roleplay, I had no idea. Did they predict a Prussian victory? And did they predict a Prussian victory *after* the Diplomatic Revolution happened?
AW's daughter Wilhelmine did say about Fritz in her memoirs "He was for me a second father, and his affectionate behavior towards me never changed".
Does AW's son Heinrich get a mention? Fritz was supposed to have been very close to him as well, and devastated when he died of smallpox at age 19. (I included him in my list of emotional isolation; did not know or had forgotten about Wilhelmine.)
Think about that while you're in the field. Think long and hard.
Ooof. And then the way Fritz reacts when Wilhelmine dies. :-(
Von Krockow is with Mildred that the Fritz/Heinrich relationship is basically an eerie RP of FW/Fritz
Yeah, I think it's too pat an explanation to be *only* that, but Heinrich is the one that's most like Fritz, and...it's eerie.
The one he hated passionately and knocked himself out to work for and kept writing at least once a week to while he was still alive and kept obsessing about after his death was Fritz.
I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but yes, you're absolutely right. It's FW/Fritz from the other side as well.
Our Insane Family: The First Generation Reprised.
Heinrich in his old age finally managed to score one who wasn't yet another charismatic money waster but kind and devoted
Aww, good. That's what we were hoping.
But why does no one include the Marwitz episode?! I've seen two different versions on how it played out, I don't trust either one, and I want to know what happened!
contemporaries did testify that Heinrich as an adult did pretend not to speak German
I forgot to mention, I looked up my source, and it said he "claimed" not to speak German. And my immediate reaction was, "Oh, well, that's completely different." Fritz would have claimed not to speak German if he could have gotten away with it. :P
Fritz seems to have had something of an accent, too, at least if Voltaire is anything to go by
Oh, from everything I've read, Fritz totally spoke French with a German accent, his poetry neither scanned (because he pronounced words with the "wrong" number of syllables) nor rhymed as a result, he knew it, and that was one reason he was so desperate to get Voltaire, and on reason he always referred to himself as being handicapped in literary matters by being a German.
This is all extremely great, thank you so much, and omg, word to the wise: try not to be born a Hohenzollern, or to marry one.
Re: More Book Reports: AW bio, Fritz and Heinrich double portrait/lengthy essay
Maybe he also was sincere in offering his older brother guidance re: education
I absolutely think he was. Partly control issues, sure, but I wasn't kidding when I said in some other comment that Fritz was giving AW what he'd wished he had. This is not terribly unlike SD trying to get Wilhelmine the marriage she would have wanted for herself.
for example, Fritz took AW with him and Algarotti when making that trip across the French border
I had either not known or forgotten AW was included! I can *totally* see him coming out of it with the impression as Fritz as the coolest older brother ever.
SD threatened to have little AW whipped by rod if he didn't ask his father for a deserter's life - one of the long fellows
Oh my god. I'd known the second half of this story, but not the first. Was she nice to any of the kids except Fritz? And was that only because FW treated Fritz the worst of all the kids? OMG, this family.
they did NOT see the Austria/France alliance coming
They can be forgiven!
That's so cool about the roleplay, I had no idea. Did they predict a Prussian victory? And did they predict a Prussian victory *after* the Diplomatic Revolution happened?
AW's daughter Wilhelmine did say about Fritz in her memoirs "He was for me a second father, and his affectionate behavior towards me never changed".
Does AW's son Heinrich get a mention? Fritz was supposed to have been very close to him as well, and devastated when he died of smallpox at age 19. (I included him in my list of emotional isolation; did not know or had forgotten about Wilhelmine.)
Think about that while you're in the field. Think long and hard.
Ooof. And then the way Fritz reacts when Wilhelmine dies. :-(
Von Krockow is with Mildred that the Fritz/Heinrich relationship is basically an eerie RP of FW/Fritz
Yeah, I think it's too pat an explanation to be *only* that, but Heinrich is the one that's most like Fritz, and...it's eerie.
The one he hated passionately and knocked himself out to work for and kept writing at least once a week to while he was still alive and kept obsessing about after his death was Fritz.
I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but yes, you're absolutely right. It's FW/Fritz from the other side as well.
Our Insane Family: The First Generation Reprised.
Heinrich in his old age finally managed to score one who wasn't yet another charismatic money waster but kind and devoted
Aww, good. That's what we were hoping.
But why does no one include the Marwitz episode?! I've seen two different versions on how it played out, I don't trust either one, and I want to know what happened!
contemporaries did testify that Heinrich as an adult did pretend not to speak German
I forgot to mention, I looked up my source, and it said he "claimed" not to speak German. And my immediate reaction was, "Oh, well, that's completely different." Fritz would have claimed not to speak German if he could have gotten away with it. :P
Fritz seems to have had something of an accent, too, at least if Voltaire is anything to go by
Oh, from everything I've read, Fritz totally spoke French with a German accent, his poetry neither scanned (because he pronounced words with the "wrong" number of syllables) nor rhymed as a result, he knew it, and that was one reason he was so desperate to get Voltaire, and on reason he always referred to himself as being handicapped in literary matters by being a German.
This is all extremely great, thank you so much, and omg, word to the wise: try not to be born a Hohenzollern, or to marry one.