If all of this sounds like a quick to the Leipzig State Archive would be great: yeah, if one were able to read unorthodox spelling in Rokoko era French hand written letters and note books with the occasional German sentence!
Clearly, we need to attract someone with this skill set into our salon!
As it is, I am really profoundly grateful for Schmidt-Lötzen's translations and editions.
As am I, as well as profoundly grateful to you for translating the translation for us!
Lehndorff did what we do - he excerpted interesting quotes from historical letters and diaries in notebooks (what with not having the internet at his disposal)
Alas, no earthly paradise of DW for him. But he's definitely one of us!
The dating of 1749 - as opposed to Lehndorff later mention of it as 1751 - is interesting; either he proposed in 1749 and they were an item until 1751,
The whole dating is interesting, because it's in late 1748 that the Hans Heinrich male line goes extinct. And Kloosterhuis doesn't have du Rosey cousin marrying Ludolf August von Katte until 1755. If Lehndorff had the misfortune of proposing to her in 1749, just as Fritz was getting interested in finding the Katte cousins an heiress, and then she remained unmarried for 6 more years...that's interesting. Any thoughts on what took so long? I know there were "intrigues," but that's a long intrigue.
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Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1776
Date: 2020-02-29 04:53 pm (UTC)Clearly, we need to attract someone with this skill set into our salon!
As it is, I am really profoundly grateful for Schmidt-Lötzen's translations and editions.
As am I, as well as profoundly grateful to you for translating the translation for us!
Lehndorff did what we do - he excerpted interesting quotes from historical letters and diaries in notebooks (what with not having the internet at his disposal)
Alas, no earthly paradise of DW for him. But he's definitely one of us!
The dating of 1749 - as opposed to Lehndorff later mention of it as 1751 - is interesting; either he proposed in 1749 and they were an item until 1751,
The whole dating is interesting, because it's in late 1748 that the Hans Heinrich male line goes extinct. And Kloosterhuis doesn't have du Rosey cousin marrying Ludolf August von Katte until 1755. If Lehndorff had the misfortune of proposing to her in 1749, just as Fritz was getting interested in finding the Katte cousins an heiress, and then she remained unmarried for 6 more years...that's interesting. Any thoughts on what took so long? I know there were "intrigues," but that's a long intrigue.