Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 24

[cahn]

Every post I can't believe this is still going on, and yet, here we are :D

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Re: Hertefelds

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you! Just as salon came around just at the right time when I needed a distraction from medical woes, you came around just at the right time when they're starting to let up and I'm working again and have less time to play detective! Salon would clearly have lost a lot of momentum without me and cahn to play off the ever active selenak, but you've been doing a bang-up job of helping her keep it going so the rest of us can have something to enjoy and to participate in when we have time. :D <3

So I strongly suspect that he got to know Peter while he was chamberlain for SD.

Agreed, and in 1750, Hanway says Fritz put Peter near the Queen Mother when he returned to Berlin (I suspect his Hofstallmeister position was at her court). Even if ten years later, he's not any more because he has other duties, that might still have been something that led to them having many contacts in common and getting to know each other, added to liking books and having 1730 in common (if from opposite sides, as it were).

Peter getting to know someone who was friends with Katte and who was responsible for guarding him under arrest...that must have been a trip akin to Fritz reading the archives.

Do we know if Hertefeld was an Academy member? That was one of the things I was going to look into if I had time.

Re: Hertefelds

[felis]

re: Academy - he wasn't. The site with the Academy records also has a name index for everyone ever mentioned in those records and he doesn't show up once, not even as a guest.

Re: Hertefelds

[mildred_of_midgard]

Perfect, thank you! (That was the first place I would have looked.)