Probably. I mean, I always tend to imagine they did it by using a knife and cups to collect the blood, but that's probably because of the movies. Leeches are more hygeniec than rokoko knives, I guess, and you don't have to wipe up the blood or pour it away afterwards. Still: ewwww.
Go you for finding the Schatullrechnungen and the Volz review! That does sound like Schöning is a good source in general (twenty years serving Fritz are nothing to sneeze at!), despite not having been present for the Glasow (and Völker) disaster himself. Presumably he did not know either guy in person (since Glasow was dead and Völker persona non grata in the King's household), but heard others (including Fritz?) talking about them.
If he was such a key source for Büsching, I assume the story about Handsome Suicidal Hussar No.2 is also from him.
Volz says he seems to have been well educated, knew French and used Latin expressions.
This is interesting because Büsching also says that nearly of of Fritz' personal servants were uneducated to illiterate near the end, because he'd gotten paranoid about being spied at. Clearly, if so, Schöning was an exception.
Re: Glasow: the Nicolai version
Probably. I mean, I always tend to imagine they did it by using a knife and cups to collect the blood, but that's probably because of the movies. Leeches are more hygeniec than rokoko knives, I guess, and you don't have to wipe up the blood or pour it away afterwards. Still: ewwww.
Go you for finding the Schatullrechnungen and the Volz review! That does sound like Schöning is a good source in general (twenty years serving Fritz are nothing to sneeze at!), despite not having been present for the Glasow (and Völker) disaster himself. Presumably he did not know either guy in person (since Glasow was dead and Völker persona non grata in the King's household), but heard others (including Fritz?) talking about them.
If he was such a key source for Büsching, I assume the story about Handsome Suicidal Hussar No.2 is also from him.
Volz says he seems to have been well educated, knew French and used Latin expressions.
This is interesting because Büsching also says that nearly of of Fritz' personal servants were uneducated to illiterate near the end, because he'd gotten paranoid about being spied at. Clearly, if so, Schöning was an exception.