BTW, the Manteuffel/Wolff correspondence is bilingual, in that Manteuffel writes French and Wolff writes German
And as noted, this is what I would have naively assumed Fredersdorf and Fritz would start doing, so the fact that Fritz keeps writing (bad) German to him to the end is very touching.
again I say: if you're a teacher and have seen how Fritz' teachers have faired, what would you do?
I'm with you on this!
So much that it's even included in the blurb printed on the back of the "Kampf um Kronprinz Friedrich" book - ...(Bronisch) solves the mystery of the naming of "Sanssouci"....
*spittake*
Was he really the first person who published this? You mentioned it to us back in January 2020, but I'm not sure what your source was.
But, Bronisch, have you solved the *real* mystery, aka the mystery of the comma in "sans, souci.", which has been bugging people for centuries?
cahn, if you're not familiar, this picture shows the way Fritz had the phrase engraved on his palace.
Was he really the first person who published this? You mentioned it to us back in January 2020, but I'm not sure what your source was.
Wikipedia. (German version) Which names both of Bronisch's books in as its sources, so that figures. Mind you, that entry says that a historical novel "Der Meister von Sanssouci" (which is actually about Knobelsdorff the architect) by Martin Stade from 1971 - thus predating Bronsich's doctoral theses by decades - already includes a scene where Manteuffel tells someone else Fritz plagiarized the name. So Bronisch is not the first one to come up with that theory. Martin Stade also wrote a novel "Der König und sein Narr" about Gundling which is credited with changing a part of the reading public's mind about Gundling and which I've been meaning to read for a while.
- thus predating Bronsich's doctoral theses by decades - already includes a scene where Manteuffel tells someone else Fritz plagiarized the name. So Bronisch is not the first one to come up with that theory.
Ha!
Ooh, yes, you should read both those books (when time permits) and tell us about them!
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And as noted, this is what I would have naively assumed Fredersdorf and Fritz would start doing, so the fact that Fritz keeps writing (bad) German to him to the end is very touching.
again I say: if you're a teacher and have seen how Fritz' teachers have faired, what would you do?
I'm with you on this!
So much that it's even included in the blurb printed on the back of the "Kampf um Kronprinz Friedrich" book - ...(Bronisch) solves the mystery of the naming of "Sanssouci"....
*spittake*
Was he really the first person who published this? You mentioned it to us back in January 2020, but I'm not sure what your source was.
But, Bronisch, have you solved the *real* mystery, aka the mystery of the comma in "sans, souci.", which has been bugging people for centuries?
Re: His Name is Diable. Le Diable: Bad Times
Wikipedia. (German version) Which names both of Bronisch's books in as its sources, so that figures. Mind you, that entry says that a historical novel "Der Meister von Sanssouci" (which is actually about Knobelsdorff the architect) by Martin Stade from 1971 - thus predating Bronsich's doctoral theses by decades - already includes a scene where Manteuffel tells someone else Fritz plagiarized the name. So Bronisch is not the first one to come up with that theory. Martin Stade also wrote a novel "Der König und sein Narr" about Gundling which is credited with changing a part of the reading public's mind about Gundling and which I've been meaning to read for a while.
Re: His Name is Diable. Le Diable: Bad Times
Ha!
Ooh, yes, you should read both those books (when time permits) and tell us about them!
Re: His Name is Diable. Le Diable: Bad Times