Okay, I just wanted to reply to this before turning over the new post because GUNDLING.
I'm glad that he got his marriage tobe not the disaster that was planned, and really glad that Sabrow finds evidence that he was a serious guy and not just FW's chew toy (which was all I really knew about him before all the stuff you read about him in this post, and I suppose if you'd asked me I would have assumed that he wasn't particularly serious).
Augusta (who had left her husband and children two years earlier which she could since she was the niece of one of the most influential Prussian trademen) sued, at which point her brother-in-law demonstrated that fool or not, he actually could wield what influence he had on FW in a devastating way in this one very personal matter.
Wow. I mean 3/4 of me is like "so this is probably one of those things where the woman suffers dramatically because this is the 18th C" and then the other 1/4 of me is like "but don't underestimate Gundling because he's the fool!" I suppose it's a sort of weird intersectionality of sorts...
Moreover, no matter how often Fritz would rail about Voltaire being the scum of the earth as a human being, he never put down Voltaire's work, he kept his admiration for it from first to last.
Yeah, that was the first thing that came to mind for me when you brought up the comparison, and why Voltaire didn't really strike me as a parallel to begin with.
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Re: Martin Sabrow's Gundling Biography: II
I'm glad that he got his marriage tobe not the disaster that was planned, and really glad that Sabrow finds evidence that he was a serious guy and not just FW's chew toy (which was all I really knew about him before all the stuff you read about him in this post, and I suppose if you'd asked me I would have assumed that he wasn't particularly serious).
Augusta (who had left her husband and children two years earlier which she could since she was the niece of one of the most influential Prussian trademen) sued, at which point her brother-in-law demonstrated that fool or not, he actually could wield what influence he had on FW in a devastating way in this one very personal matter.
Wow. I mean 3/4 of me is like "so this is probably one of those things where the woman suffers dramatically because this is the 18th C" and then the other 1/4 of me is like "but don't underestimate Gundling because he's the fool!" I suppose it's a sort of weird intersectionality of sorts...
Moreover, no matter how often Fritz would rail about Voltaire being the scum of the earth as a human being, he never put down Voltaire's work, he kept his admiration for it from first to last.
Yeah, that was the first thing that came to mind for me when you brought up the comparison, and why Voltaire didn't really strike me as a parallel to begin with.