Btw, here's a footnote German wiki has on the hot page:
"Der „schöne Marwitz“ ist vermutlich identisch mit dem auf dem Rheinsberger Obelisken ohne Nennung seines Vornamens als "Quartiermeister bei der Armee des Königs" mit der Lebensspanne 1724-1759 erwähnten Angehörigen der Familie von der Marwitz."
("Beautiful Marwitz" is probably identical with the Marwitz family member included on the Rheinsberg Obelisk without a mention of his first name as "Quatermaster with the army of the King" and a life span of 1724 to 1759.")
Otoh the Wiki entry for the entire Marwitz family thinks the Obelisk Marwitz is "The Black Marwitz" who "soll dem König verweigerte haben, bei Hochkirch das Lager für die Preußische Armee aufzuschlagen, was sich durch den anschließenden Überfall bei Hochkirch als Weise erwies" ("is supposed to have refused to the King to make camp for the Prussian army at Hochkirch, which due to the later attack on Hochkirch turned out to have been a wise decision"). Which would fit with the general Obelisk theme of "People who were fucked over by Fritz" in a metaphorical, not literal way better.
Another footnote says the four letters from Fritz to Heinrich re: Marwitz the hot page were written in March 1746, which, if you'll recall, means this was happening simultanously to the end phase of his argument with Wilhelmine, featuring Marwitz the cheating lady in waiting. Or, was Wilhelmine would say, "the sympathy of our fates strikes again".
Lastly, two more bits of trivia about Hohenzollerns being just... well... so Heinrich in his old excentric gentleman phase has many to be expected cultural hobbies, and one really weird one. Apparantly he liked to look at the occasional corpse in Rheinsberg. But not until some make-up had been put on the dead fellow to make him look less corpse-like.
And secondly, on a note of "it's sweet, but also yet another example of 'you two were a scandal that never happened due to your orientation'": Fritz writes to Wilhelmine in the early 1730s that she should send him a ribbon of hers she's worn at least 14 days.
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Re: More Book Reports: AW bio, Fritz and Heinrich double portrait/lengthy essay
Date: 2019-11-24 11:44 am (UTC)Btw, here's a footnote German wiki has on the hot page:
"Der „schöne Marwitz“ ist vermutlich identisch mit dem auf dem Rheinsberger Obelisken ohne Nennung seines Vornamens als "Quartiermeister bei der Armee des Königs" mit der Lebensspanne 1724-1759 erwähnten Angehörigen der Familie von der Marwitz."
("Beautiful Marwitz" is probably identical with the Marwitz family member included on the Rheinsberg Obelisk without a mention of his first name as "Quatermaster with the army of the King" and a life span of 1724 to 1759.")
Otoh the Wiki entry for the entire Marwitz family thinks the Obelisk Marwitz is "The Black Marwitz" who "soll dem König verweigerte haben, bei Hochkirch das Lager für die Preußische Armee aufzuschlagen, was sich durch den anschließenden Überfall bei Hochkirch als Weise erwies" ("is supposed to have refused to the King to make camp for the Prussian army at Hochkirch, which due to the later attack on Hochkirch turned out to have been a wise decision"). Which would fit with the general Obelisk theme of "People who were fucked over by Fritz" in a metaphorical, not literal way better.
Another footnote says the four letters from Fritz to Heinrich re: Marwitz the hot page were written in March 1746, which, if you'll recall, means this was happening simultanously to the end phase of his argument with Wilhelmine, featuring Marwitz the cheating lady in waiting. Or, was Wilhelmine would say, "the sympathy of our fates strikes again".
Lastly, two more bits of trivia about Hohenzollerns being just... well... so Heinrich in his old excentric gentleman phase has many to be expected cultural hobbies, and one really weird one. Apparantly he liked to look at the occasional corpse in Rheinsberg. But not until some make-up had been put on the dead fellow to make him look less corpse-like.
And secondly, on a note of "it's sweet, but also yet another example of 'you two were a scandal that never happened due to your orientation'": Fritz writes to Wilhelmine in the early 1730s that she should send him a ribbon of hers she's worn at least 14 days.