Thank you for this! I was hoping you'd been able to get a hold of it. Figures that it contains a lot of material unfamiliar/uninteresting to us, with almost everyone we know being dead by that point.
Pity about Lehndorff being unfair to the Comte, but I suppose he was never fully rational on the subject of Heinrich's boyfriends! I'm glad the 1799 visit wasn't the last word on their relationship, because I too was disappointed when I got to that in Ziebura!
Also, curse 1945!
while Fritz never did anything for and much against him, Lehndorff, personally, there was a greatness about those days which is gone now
This is really interesting. I was thinking of it when I read the write-up that Ada Palmer posted today on a golden age as a time that produces amazing art, literature, technological feats, etc. that later ages look back on in awe, vs. a golden age as an epoch when you personally would want to be dropped into via time machine and have to live your life in, and how those are REALLY REALLY different, and the Renaissance was one but not the other. (I know we've had problems with her as historian before, but I think this is a fair contrast, and is something I've brought up to people in the past when they insist on using the term "Dark Ages" either for the Iron Age Aegean or post-antiquity Europe.) And I think this applies equally to the Fritzian period. Which I would not want to live in, not even as a man.
Heinrich is the last of the geniuses of those days, if diminished and gone to the west. (Okay, Lehndorff does not quote Tolkien, but you get the idea.)
Hahaha. Now I'm imagining Tolkien quoting Lehndorff. ;)
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Re: 1799
Date: 2020-06-05 06:26 pm (UTC)Pity about Lehndorff being unfair to the Comte, but I suppose he was never fully rational on the subject of Heinrich's boyfriends! I'm glad the 1799 visit wasn't the last word on their relationship, because I too was disappointed when I got to that in Ziebura!
Also, curse 1945!
while Fritz never did anything for and much against him, Lehndorff, personally, there was a greatness about those days which is gone now
This is really interesting. I was thinking of it when I read the write-up that Ada Palmer posted today on a golden age as a time that produces amazing art, literature, technological feats, etc. that later ages look back on in awe, vs. a golden age as an epoch when you personally would want to be dropped into via time machine and have to live your life in, and how those are REALLY REALLY different, and the Renaissance was one but not the other. (I know we've had problems with her as historian before, but I think this is a fair contrast, and is something I've brought up to people in the past when they insist on using the term "Dark Ages" either for the Iron Age Aegean or post-antiquity Europe.) And I think this applies equally to the Fritzian period. Which I would not want to live in, not even as a man.
Heinrich is the last of the geniuses of those days, if diminished and gone to the west. (Okay, Lehndorff does not quote Tolkien, but you get the idea.)
Hahaha. Now I'm imagining Tolkien quoting Lehndorff. ;)