Yes, I agree it wasn't Knobelsdorff. I came to the conclusion some time ago that if the story of Fouqué letting Fritz have his candle when he visited only goes back to his 19th century bio by his more famous grandson, that account's probably not real either. Since Fouqué only visited after Fritz had been confined a year.
Since we've turned up that letter to Wilhelmine in which Fritz, apparently in the earliest 2 months of confinement, is reading late at night in a locked room with a lamp, I actually wonder if the candle "letter but not spirit" thing happened at all. Or if the Münchows were just like, "Here. Have some light. We won't tell your dad if you don't."
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Re: Book review I: Der Meister von Sanssouci - Fredersdorf and historical footnotes
Date: 2021-03-18 08:42 pm (UTC)I laughed. :D
Yes, I agree it wasn't Knobelsdorff. I came to the conclusion some time ago that if the story of Fouqué letting Fritz have his candle when he visited only goes back to his 19th century bio by his more famous grandson, that account's probably not real either. Since Fouqué only visited after Fritz had been confined a year.
Since we've turned up that letter to Wilhelmine in which Fritz, apparently in the earliest 2 months of confinement, is reading late at night in a locked room with a lamp, I actually wonder if the candle "letter but not spirit" thing happened at all. Or if the Münchows were just like, "Here. Have some light. We won't tell your dad if you don't."