Probably figuring that this sounded better than teaching kids in Moscow, Morgenstern accepted.
Oof.
Kings, too, are fools for "imagining the weight of their subjects' sins lay on their shoulders by the tons, and are pushing them into the abyss".
Ha! Yeah, I can see where Leineweber is going with this. I have to say I think the speech is really quite clever for the topic "Scholars are fools" which was supposed to be a humiliation! It actually sounds like it was a lecture he could reasonably have felt good about giving (given the getup and everything) while still keeping FW happy.
The Breslau thing is kind of amazing!
Was Fritz right to arrest Gutzmar?
Morgenstern's later years must have been pretty lonely; supposedly, he didn't even clean up the spiders in his room because he liked their company. When Niicolai visited him in 1779, ever hunting for stories, he thought Morgenstern came across as a smart man, if excentric. He went out now and then to play chess, but that was it, and otherwise he lived in his rooms with his books, and wrote the FW manuscript.
Re: The Life and Times of Samuel Jakob Morgenstern
Oof.
Kings, too, are fools for "imagining the weight of their subjects' sins lay on their shoulders by the tons, and are pushing them into the abyss".
Ha! Yeah, I can see where Leineweber is going with this. I have to say I think the speech is really quite clever for the topic "Scholars are fools" which was supposed to be a humiliation! It actually sounds like it was a lecture he could reasonably have felt good about giving (given the getup and everything) while still keeping FW happy.
The Breslau thing is kind of amazing!
Was Fritz right to arrest Gutzmar?
Morgenstern's later years must have been pretty lonely; supposedly, he didn't even clean up the spiders in his room because he liked their company. When Niicolai visited him in 1779, ever hunting for stories, he thought Morgenstern came across as a smart man, if excentric. He went out now and then to play chess, but that was it, and otherwise he lived in his rooms with his books, and wrote the FW manuscript.
Aw :(