Felis did indeed, and also I'm too tired right now to type up all the pages on the 1795 reform. :)
But I can tell cahn now that poor Lepsch had a go at the sheep courtesy to the pamphlet you uploaded. Well actually, I don't know which animal(s) he had a go at, but it wasn't humans. The giveaway is "viehische Vermischung" again, and also that he was the only accused. If it's m/m, and Philippe d'Orleans or his boyfriends aren't involved, that would be a case of two sinners brought to "justice". Also that pamphlet is one of the gruesome religious "aren't I a good priest for making the condemned repent properly" exercise, very much the opposite of Schubert's compassion in the Gundling letter or Besser's to Hans Heinrich about his son's death.
Incidentally, since we're now two for two for "sodomy" used to mean bestiality in 18th century Prussia, not gay sex, I'm veering back to my original conviction that this was the way the term was used in German even then.
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Re: Torture and capital punishment in 18th Century Prussia
Date: 2021-03-20 06:34 pm (UTC)But I can tell
Incidentally, since we're now two for two for "sodomy" used to mean bestiality in 18th century Prussia, not gay sex, I'm veering back to my original conviction that this was the way the term was used in German even then.