Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: MacDonogh Reread I

[mildred_of_midgard]

Other Seckendorff, at a guess, might be Christoph Friedrich von Seckendorff-Adebar, but that's just because the birthdates and dying dates make it possible.

Blanning to the rescue: he names the author as Baron Christophe Louis de Seckendorff. Preuss agrees. Apparently, Blanning talks at length about Manteuffel and the Seckendorff diary (and even "Junior"!), and it all went whoosh! over my head at the time. That's why rereading him is next on my list after Lavisse.

We've come so far in so few months!

Re: MacDonogh Reread I

[selenak]

Christoph Ludwig it is! I wonder whether back when Uncle Seckendorff got kidnapped and spend some time in Magdeburg he got back into contact? Considering Ansbach was on Fritz' side in the war, he could have.

BTW, if the Abbé de Prades was able to clean out his fellow prisoners of their money by gambling, and Lehndorff could visit the legendary schemer Seckendorff as if it was a social call, I assume if you weren't Trenck, Magdeburg imprisonment conditions (for nobles at least) weren't too harsh...