Neither have I, just a physical copy in the Munich university library (as well as various other libraries in Germany). Not sure if even post-pandemic Selena has access to that library.
Also an 1809 review, which is...somehow not in a ridiculous font??
The Munich uni library calls him Kurd von Schöning, but they seem to be confusing him with the later military history writer Kurd von Schöning who was born in 1789 and whom I turned up in my searches earlier.
Felis, do you have non-pandemic access to a physical library that I should be including in my searches?
leeches ("Blutigel" :D - this shows up quite often, did they do the bleeding that way?)
I know they did sometimes! Wikipedia tells me leeches really took off in the early 19th century, but they'd been around in the 18th as well. (They'd been *around* forever, since ancient Egypt, but were still in use in the 18C.)
But he didn't need glasses to read and write.
Huh. I thought we'd established that he did (hence that making it into my fanfic), but perhaps we extrapolated that from me (and Selena?) needing glasses to read and right. I pushed my glasses up on my head just now, and I had to increase the font size up to 300% just to be able to make out DW text with a lot of difficulty, and at 500% it was still noticeably blurry and hard to read. And 500% is as high as Chrome will take me. :P
Otoh, as I remember Selena pointing out, it was the 18th century, and everyone was holding the page up to their nose, because lighting was terrible!
Also, if he wasn't far-sighted at all by 74, that's impressive.
which is included in Seidel's essay about Fritz' looks
Re: Glasow: the Nicolai version
I haven't found a copy of Schöning's own book
Neither have I, just a physical copy in the Munich university library (as well as various other libraries in Germany). Not sure if even post-pandemic Selena has access to that library.
Also an 1809 review, which is...somehow not in a ridiculous font??
The Munich uni library calls him Kurd von Schöning, but they seem to be confusing him with the later military history writer Kurd von Schöning who was born in 1789 and whom I turned up in my searches earlier.
Felis, do you have non-pandemic access to a physical library that I should be including in my searches?
leeches ("Blutigel" :D - this shows up quite often, did they do the bleeding that way?)
I know they did sometimes! Wikipedia tells me leeches really took off in the early 19th century, but they'd been around in the 18th as well. (They'd been *around* forever, since ancient Egypt, but were still in use in the 18C.)
But he didn't need glasses to read and write.
Huh. I thought we'd established that he did (hence that making it into my fanfic), but perhaps we extrapolated that from me (and Selena?) needing glasses to read and right. I pushed my glasses up on my head just now, and I had to increase the font size up to 300% just to be able to make out DW text with a lot of difficulty, and at 500% it was still noticeably blurry and hard to read. And 500% is as high as Chrome will take me. :P
Otoh, as I remember Selena pointing out, it was the 18th century, and everyone was holding the page up to their nose, because lighting was terrible!
Also, if he wasn't far-sighted at all by 74, that's impressive.
which is included in Seidel's essay about Fritz' looks
Ooh. Where is this?