Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

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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: Émilie Tripled

[mildred_of_midgard]

Laura Bassi: sounds really cool, and I can't believe no one before Arianrhod mentioned her in the books we've read

Dissertation author: slander!

More seriously, Bassi doesn't get a lot of page time in the dissertation, but enough that I remembered her name and knew facts about her from my reading of it.

Émilie biographers, of course, have no excuse.

*searches*

Okay, Bodanis doesn't mention her at all, but Zinsser gives two passing mentions, including acknowledging that they were both members of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna and that Bassi used one of Émilie's books in her classes. Bassi gets far more page time in the Algarotti dissertation (I wouldn't be surprised if this is because dissertation author is heavily leaning on Italian sources, and Émilie biographers more French sources.)

I swear, that poem really was nothing but trouble.

Evidently!

(BTW, Franz Stephan showing up as "Francois-Etienne" in the English wiki entry threw me for a moment before I realised.)

Hee. Not as much as Hans Heinrich as "John Henry" once threw me. ;)

Anyway, all very interesting women, worthy of more research, my kingdom for more time.