Anyway, I now have this lovely mental image of Suhm sawing wood and Fritz considering it!
This is very endearing. :D And I love the playfulness of the whole thing.
Another editor's footnote tells me that FW started a commission to look into Wolff as early as 1736, and that he was proclaimed innocent. Do we know if this is true?
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Re: Suhm letters
Date: 2021-03-01 11:27 am (UTC)This is very endearing. :D And I love the playfulness of the whole thing.
Another editor's footnote tells me that FW started a commission to look into Wolff as early as 1736, and that he was proclaimed innocent. Do we know if this is true?
I read something like this in the Manteuffel book preview, yes, and quick googling gives me lots of other mentions for it, too. So there was definitely a commission in 1736 (consisting of Reinbeck, Noltenius, and Cocceji, among others), which proclaimed Wolff innocent, which is also why Manteuffel could start his Societé des Alethophiles in 1736. Apparently FW even issued a "now stop fighting" order for the Lange vs. the Wolff camps in September. He probably still didn't start reading Wolff until 1739, though, and the first offer to return seems to have been from 1739, too.
Re: Suhm letters
Date: 2021-03-01 09:19 pm (UTC)Agreed. And thank you for the Manteuffel details!