Engel gives Denina's La Prusse Litteraire as a source on Peter, which has a couple pages (331ff) that seem to be a paraphrase of Formey's eulogy.
Meant to say, thank you for this! At the end it has a couple things on his son that were in Formey's future. One I'd seen but didn't have a source for: namely that the son of Peter who was an envoy to Turin in 1776-1777 (the one I've seen three different first names for) lived a life entirely retired from society after withdrawing from politics. Now I have a 1790 source for that! So it's looking quite likely. I also learned that he hadn't married as of 1790. Since he's in his mid-forties, it's just possible that he did eventually marry, but looking less likely.
Still no idea about the other son, not even a death date. The last I hear of him, Ariane was taking him to join his brother at university circa 1760.
Oh, Denina also says Envoy Son was, albeit withdrawn from society, nevertheless attached to the Prussian minister of foreign affairs. That seems to be this Hertzberg, who's shown up a couple times in salon.
Oh, lol, he has some correspondence with Fritz in Trier, in 1779-1781, and just from my quick glance at the French, they are, you guessed it, arguing about the virtues of German vs. French. Fritz is being very...Fritzian. :'D
ETA: Oh, yeah, his wiki page says, "In 1780 he boldly took up the defence of German literature, which had been disparaged by Frederick the Great in his famous writing De la literature allemande."
Polish your rusty armor and stop talking about things you have no idea about, Fritz. :P (Except don't, I love your flaws as much as your virtues, that's why you're endlessly fascinating to me...from a safe distance. But if you come into my house and start telling me how to administer databases, you will see Knobelsdorff has nothing on me when it comes to dispensing with social niceties. :P (CorporateAU!Heinrich is gritting his teeth right now.))
So anyway, Hertzberg + Envoy Son of Peter = BFFs. Probably a connection that helped get Envoy Son that envoy position.
(Hertzberg shows up in Ziebura during FW2's reign, doesn't he? Or am I thinking of someone else?)
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Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
Date: 2021-03-19 09:30 pm (UTC)Meant to say, thank you for this! At the end it has a couple things on his son that were in Formey's future. One I'd seen but didn't have a source for: namely that the son of Peter who was an envoy to Turin in 1776-1777 (the one I've seen three different first names for) lived a life entirely retired from society after withdrawing from politics. Now I have a 1790 source for that! So it's looking quite likely. I also learned that he hadn't married as of 1790. Since he's in his mid-forties, it's just possible that he did eventually marry, but looking less likely.
Still no idea about the other son, not even a death date. The last I hear of him, Ariane was taking him to join his brother at university circa 1760.
Oh, Denina also says Envoy Son was, albeit withdrawn from society, nevertheless attached to the Prussian minister of foreign affairs. That seems to be this Hertzberg, who's shown up a couple times in salon.
Oh, lol, he has some correspondence with Fritz in Trier, in 1779-1781, and just from my quick glance at the French, they are, you guessed it, arguing about the virtues of German vs. French. Fritz is being very...Fritzian. :'D
ETA: Oh, yeah, his wiki page says, "In 1780 he boldly took up the defence of German literature, which had been disparaged by Frederick the Great in his famous writing De la literature allemande."
Polish your rusty armor and stop talking about things you have no idea about, Fritz. :P (Except don't, I love your flaws as much as your virtues, that's why you're endlessly fascinating to me...from a safe distance. But if you come into my house and start telling me how to administer databases, you will see Knobelsdorff has nothing on me when it comes to dispensing with social niceties. :P (CorporateAU!Heinrich is gritting his teeth right now.))
So anyway, Hertzberg + Envoy Son of Peter = BFFs. Probably a connection that helped get Envoy Son that envoy position.
(Hertzberg shows up in Ziebura during FW2's reign, doesn't he? Or am I thinking of someone else?)