It is really marvelous how we've been able to flesh out Peter's post 1730 life and thus his personality over the last two years, when in biographies old and new he's pretty much just (foot)noted as "the other one".
On my long Rheinsberg to-do list is a proper biographical essay of Peter. I'm dumping everything we find into the existing Keiths post, but it's unreadable and is there just so I can double-check info when I need it. At some point, I would like to create something readable collecting everything we've found.
/Your friend, an American scholar who is currently studying Peter Keith. :D
Oh, felis, I think that exchange took place outside salon. When Selena was in the Katte crypt in Wust last year, she had to explain why she was taking 45 pictures of all angles and making sure to get one of everything with any kind of text on it, no matter how much she had to kneel down and lean over and use a smaller camera to access it. And since she couldn't say, "For my friend, who ships Fritz/Katte," to the local historian/tour guide, she said, "For my friend, an American scholar who is currently studying the Katte family."
This NEVER CEASES to be utterly hilarious to me. I'm an American! I'm a scholar! I'm studying the Katte family! And yet that sentence is utterly misleading while being 100% factually true. :D
I mean, not that I, as an independent scholar by night, don't fantasize about publishing a Peter Keith biographical essay, a "Catt is a lying liar who lies, LIKE KOSER SAID," essay, and following it up with our "Fritz was a lying liar who lied to Katte to get him to help with the escape plan" findings, but...I fantasize about writing as many scholarly articles as I do fanfics, and I end up completing and publishing 0.01% of them.
So the "American scholar who is currently studying" line is going to be a running joke for a while. ;)
We knew he loved books and reading, now we know he must have loved the visual arts as well, since I doubt Knobelsdorff would have left his collection to an ignoramus who just uses it to impress people.
Agreed! And don't forget, he loved experimental science too. Did some in Ireland, and I'm sure that played a role in his honorary Academy membership.
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Date: 2021-03-20 04:08 pm (UTC)On my long Rheinsberg to-do list is a proper biographical essay of Peter. I'm dumping everything we find into the existing Keiths post, but it's unreadable and is there just so I can double-check info when I need it. At some point, I would like to create something readable collecting everything we've found.
/Your friend, an American scholar who is currently studying Peter Keith. :D
Oh,
This NEVER CEASES to be utterly hilarious to me. I'm an American! I'm a scholar! I'm studying the Katte family! And yet that sentence is utterly misleading while being 100% factually true. :D
I mean, not that I, as an independent scholar by night, don't fantasize about publishing a Peter Keith biographical essay, a "Catt is a lying liar who lies, LIKE KOSER SAID," essay, and following it up with our "Fritz was a lying liar who lied to Katte to get him to help with the escape plan" findings, but...I fantasize about writing as many scholarly articles as I do fanfics, and I end up completing and publishing 0.01% of them.
So the "American scholar who is currently studying" line is going to be a running joke for a while. ;)
We knew he loved books and reading, now we know he must have loved the visual arts as well, since I doubt Knobelsdorff would have left his collection to an ignoramus who just uses it to impress people.
Agreed! And don't forget, he loved experimental science too. Did some in Ireland, and I'm sure that played a role in his honorary Academy membership.