Browsing through Nicolai's anti-Zimmermann book is a headache because the printing quality is so smudged and bad (in addition to the font used)
Ugh. I'm sorry. Thank you for taking one for the team!
(Well, not to me at any rate, as I'm not as systematically minded as Mildred with her maps.)
Haha, I admit, sometimes I get fascinated with numbers and locations, depending on the topic.
On the contrary, upstanding Protestant Katte would have done anything to prevent this.
Apparently, it was a deciding factor in his willingness to sacrifice his life! I too am impressed with this Nicolai.
Okay. Z. - he always calls him "Ritter von Z" or "Herr von Z", never writing out the last name and always using the "von" to mock Zimmermann's pride in his ennoblement
Hahaha, I approve.
As anyone with a brain in the publishing industry would know, even if you are refuting a charge, by listing it and talking about it you're just making sure more people hear about it.
Praeteritio!
(You, Mildred, quoted Banning on this, I think; Banning's source is Nicolai, because the phrasing is almost identical.)
Blanning cites Büsching for "The surgeon Gottlieb Engel, who helped to prepare Frederick’s body for burial, indignantly asserted that the royal genitalia were as “complete and perfect as those of any healthy man," and a 1921 article reprinting the 1790 signed testimony by the three medical officers. The 1921 author "adds that Frederick’s naked body lay for more than one and a half hours and was seen by at least a dozen people, none of whom noticed any genital deformity," so I think Blanning is one degree removed from Nicolai, but his ultimate source is Nicolai.
Because Nicolai is thorough, he also says readers (if they'd made it so far in this unsavoury subject)
Nicolai's readers: *are glued*
might wonder what the various people were doing checking Fritz' genitals close enough to look for scarring tissue. Well, says Nicolai, it's all that bastard Voltaire's fault, because he was the one who started the story of the botched operation in his slanderous writings, which everyone had read, so these guys were curious and had a look.
That's awesome, though! Because I've always been aware that I have no way to refute the hypothetical argument "But what if they just missed it because they weren't looking?"
But they were looking--that's perfect! :D
*is surprisingly excited that someone looked at someone else's penis closely*
Gossipy sensationalism has clearly reached a peak. :P
Also, cahn, chronology reminder: Voltaire's memoirs were published in 1784, Fritz died in 1786, meaning the medical officers have been reading bestsellers when they were published. :D
Remember, this is not in the 1752 pamphlet!
But he, Nicolai, talked to the late lady's son, Count Such and Such, and here reprints the son's testimony that his mother wasn't EC's lady-in-waiting during the first six months of EC's marriage (or later)
I see Nicolai and Koser are soul mates in some respects.
Nicolai mocks this, saying that it could be one of Bute's advisors is called MacSomething or the other, it's a very common name part in GB for someone to have, but there's no proof this is Barbarina's ex. As for the idea the Brits wouldn't have withdrawn funding from Fritz otherwise, pleaaaaaase.
It's just possible it was her ex? But much more likely it's a MacSomething (MacJemand? MacEtwas? How do you say this in German, I must know. :P)
And yeah, the claim that he single-handedly got Fritz's funding withdrawn? As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Re: Nicolai vs Zimmermann: En garde!
Date: 2021-03-04 12:58 am (UTC)Ugh. I'm sorry. Thank you for taking one for the team!
(Well, not to me at any rate, as I'm not as systematically minded as Mildred with her maps.)
Haha, I admit, sometimes I get fascinated with numbers and locations, depending on the topic.
On the contrary, upstanding Protestant Katte would have done anything to prevent this.
Apparently, it was a deciding factor in his willingness to sacrifice his life! I too am impressed with this Nicolai.
Okay. Z. - he always calls him "Ritter von Z" or "Herr von Z", never writing out the last name and always using the "von" to mock Zimmermann's pride in his ennoblement
Hahaha, I approve.
As anyone with a brain in the publishing industry would know, even if you are refuting a charge, by listing it and talking about it you're just making sure more people hear about it.
Praeteritio!
(You, Mildred, quoted Banning on this, I think; Banning's source is Nicolai, because the phrasing is almost identical.)
Blanning cites Büsching for "The surgeon Gottlieb Engel, who helped to prepare Frederick’s body for burial, indignantly asserted that the royal genitalia were as “complete and perfect as those of any healthy man," and a 1921 article reprinting the 1790 signed testimony by the three medical officers. The 1921 author "adds that Frederick’s naked body lay for more than one and a half hours and was seen by at least a dozen people, none of whom noticed any genital deformity," so I think Blanning is one degree removed from Nicolai, but his ultimate source is Nicolai.
Because Nicolai is thorough, he also says readers (if they'd made it so far in this unsavoury subject)
Nicolai's readers: *are glued*
might wonder what the various people were doing checking Fritz' genitals close enough to look for scarring tissue. Well, says Nicolai, it's all that bastard Voltaire's fault, because he was the one who started the story of the botched operation in his slanderous writings, which everyone had read, so these guys were curious and had a look.
That's awesome, though! Because I've always been aware that I have no way to refute the hypothetical argument "But what if they just missed it because they weren't looking?"
But they were looking--that's perfect! :D
*is surprisingly excited that someone looked at someone else's penis closely*
Gossipy sensationalism has clearly reached a peak. :P
Also,
Remember, this is not in the 1752 pamphlet!
But he, Nicolai, talked to the late lady's son, Count Such and Such, and here reprints the son's testimony that his mother wasn't EC's lady-in-waiting during the first six months of EC's marriage (or later)
I see Nicolai and Koser are soul mates in some respects.
Nicolai mocks this, saying that it could be one of Bute's advisors is called MacSomething or the other, it's a very common name part in GB for someone to have, but there's no proof this is Barbarina's ex. As for the idea the Brits wouldn't have withdrawn funding from Fritz otherwise, pleaaaaaase.
It's just possible it was her ex? But much more likely it's a MacSomething (MacJemand? MacEtwas? How do you say this in German, I must know. :P)
And yeah, the claim that he single-handedly got Fritz's funding withdrawn? As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Thank you for the write-up!