Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

[cahn]

Yuletide nominations:

18th Century CE Federician RPF
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria
Voltaire
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Anna Amalie von Preußen | Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)
Catherine II of Russia
Hans Hermann von Katte
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)

Circle of Voltaire RPF
Emilie du Chatelet
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour)
John Hervey (1696-1743)
Marie Louise Mignot Denis
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1696-1788)
Francesco Algarotti

Comments

Re: Andrew Mitchell: The Return

[selenak]

Seeing as Boswell‘s father, Lord Auchinleck, was the austere, hard working Protestant type, I‘m going with the shared denominator for Boswell and Katte of: Dads not willing to finance the Grand Tour unless sons willing to do the backpacker thing of also using at least some of the time abroad for studying and hard work. Mitchell, of course, was his own man and in control of all the cash, so in his case it might have been an honest career consideration - i.e. it would be useful to have as a background once he got back to Britain and fully qualified at the bar.

Re: Andrew Mitchell: The Return

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oooh, yes, that does make sense. I have wondered if Grandpa Wartensleben was maybe the one funding it, but it was also kind of on the short side, so maybe it was Hans Heinrich after all.

Mitchell, of course, was his own man and in control of all the cash

Which his father went to a great deal of trouble to acquire, apparently.