Yet another awesome write-up that I have read and not had time to reply to!
Not to dig myself deeper into this hole :P, but there's now a 2007 dissertation by Judith Matzke on Saxon diplomatic service 1694-1763 in the library. I turned it up about a year ago in my Suhm research, and found it useful enough for my purposes that I put it on my reading list, but since we're getting to know some more envoys these days, and since it's going to be mooooonths before my German is fast enough *and* I've gotten through the items higher on my reading list...it's there if you want to take a look and see if it has anything of interest to salon. (It's a 400+ page dissertation, it may be dry as dust. But also it has a nearly 50 page bibliography, so maybe it'll point us somewhere interesting.)
With luck, I should be able to participate in salon and chip away at the backlog this weekend. The amount of work I'll have to do is less than I anticipated (though still some).
At a first glimpse, it looks pretty dry, but check out page 222! It has something dear to year heart: a neat little excel thing listing which envoy got how much salary and expenses in the year 1723 (the one with the highest salary and expenses is unsurprisingly Hoym in Paris, with 8000 Reichtaler per annum and 400 additional expenses. Suhm in Berlin in the same year gets 1.800 per annum and 900 for additional expenses. And he has a lot other guys ahead of him in addition to Hoym - the envoys to London, Moscow/St. Petersburg, Vienna, Venice, Mainz, Rome and Frankfurt, in that order. Don't ask me why Mainz, other than it's one of the towns with an Archbishop who is also a prince elector. The order of the others are pretty much what I assumed, though it amuses me that St. Petersburg is already more expensive than Vienna. On page 226, however, there is a new statistics, showing that Suhm's salary has risen. In 1727, he ranks fourth after Hoym (still the one who gets the most money for being the envoy in France - in fact, Hoym gets 15% of the annual total budget), and the envoys in Moscow and London, respectively, in that order. Suhm now gets 7.200 per annum.
Oh, and Suhm's successor in 1729 was called von Polenz.
Oh, yes, I saw that! Basically, when I was researching Suhm (for your Georgii fic!), I searched for "Suhm" in this document and Google translated everything I found, but the rest of the dissertation is a black box to me (a dry one, it seems). Oh, other than the time for diplomatic correspondence to get between Dresden and various courts, I documented that in Rheinsberg. And I know a bit about Polenz qua Suhm's successor and was planning to talk about him in my reply today. He's actually in our Frederician chronology document! :)
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Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-13 12:47 am (UTC)Not to dig myself deeper into this hole :P, but there's now a 2007 dissertation by Judith Matzke on Saxon diplomatic service 1694-1763 in the library. I turned it up about a year ago in my Suhm research, and found it useful enough for my purposes that I put it on my reading list, but since we're getting to know some more envoys these days, and since it's going to be mooooonths before my German is fast enough *and* I've gotten through the items higher on my reading list...it's there if you want to take a look and see if it has anything of interest to salon. (It's a 400+ page dissertation, it may be dry as dust. But also it has a nearly 50 page bibliography, so maybe it'll point us somewhere interesting.)
With luck, I should be able to participate in salon and chip away at the backlog this weekend. The amount of work I'll have to do is less than I anticipated (though still some).
Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-13 03:32 pm (UTC)Oh, and Suhm's successor in 1729 was called von Polenz.
Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-13 04:07 pm (UTC)