Additional info via Volz: this was apparently slightly edited by the 1808 editor (after Schöning's death) and is based on several things Schöning wrote - for Büsching, against Unger/Zimmermann, ... - starting right after Fritz' death. In the state archive, Volz also found a 1795 manuscript Schöning sent to one of FWII's ministers in 1795 (per request), which contains a mix of all that. The quotes that Volz gives in the article I linked above are (mostly) anecdotes from the 1795 manuscript that aren't in the published 1808 one.
The 1809 review is the one that Selena linked above, see "The reviewer..."
And yeah, I saw the Kurd von Schöning confusion as well. Volz doesn't give a first name either, and he says that we don't know much about him - I mentioned most of it - and nothing about his life before 1766. Haven't read the actual Schöning book yet, but I doubt there's more in that one, or Volz would probably have mentioned it.
Felis, do you have non-pandemic access to a physical library that I should be including in my searches?
Sadly, no.
which is included in Seidel's essay about Fritz' looks
Ooh. Where is this?
Huh, I thought I'd mentioned it before, but maybe not. Another Hohenzollern-Jahrbuch essay (truly a treasure trove), Die äußere Erscheinung Friedrichs des Großen, which I just realized is actually written by two people instead of one: first part by Koser, who collects a lot of quotes about Fritz' looks, starting with F1's comments about baby Fritz, second part by Seidel about Fritz paintings and sculptures etc.
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Re: Glasow: the Nicolai version
Date: 2021-02-27 09:59 pm (UTC)Additional info via Volz: this was apparently slightly edited by the 1808 editor (after Schöning's death) and is based on several things Schöning wrote - for Büsching, against Unger/Zimmermann, ... - starting right after Fritz' death. In the state archive, Volz also found a 1795 manuscript Schöning sent to one of FWII's ministers in 1795 (per request), which contains a mix of all that. The quotes that Volz gives in the article I linked above are (mostly) anecdotes from the 1795 manuscript that aren't in the published 1808 one.
The 1809 review is the one that Selena linked above, see "The reviewer..."
And yeah, I saw the Kurd von Schöning confusion as well. Volz doesn't give a first name either, and he says that we don't know much about him - I mentioned most of it - and nothing about his life before 1766. Haven't read the actual Schöning book yet, but I doubt there's more in that one, or Volz would probably have mentioned it.
Felis, do you have non-pandemic access to a physical library that I should be including in my searches?
Sadly, no.
which is included in Seidel's essay about Fritz' looks
Ooh. Where is this?
Huh, I thought I'd mentioned it before, but maybe not. Another Hohenzollern-Jahrbuch essay (truly a treasure trove), Die äußere Erscheinung Friedrichs des Großen, which I just realized is actually written by two people instead of one: first part by Koser, who collects a lot of quotes about Fritz' looks, starting with F1's comments about baby Fritz, second part by Seidel about Fritz paintings and sculptures etc.