As for the corresponendence, I'll get around to it, but only after Easter. Ordering always takes a few days, and next week I'm off to spend the Easter Holidays with the APs. I don't want a parcel with Stabi books standing around unsupervised in the floor!
It would make sense if the envoys tended to gravitate toward or were assigned a specific dwelling.
Especially since it's there to have when the previous envoy moves out anyway, and also if you move to a new place, even if you bring some of your own servants and staff, you will inevitably also hire some locals. (For laundry, food delivery etc.) It's much more convenient to use already established connections than for you or your steward having to find the people in question in the first place.
Speaking of 1730: I briefly wondered where Doris Ritter lived to take those fatal chaperoned strolls with Fritz, but then I recalled she was in Potsdam, not Berlin. Checking wiki again, Doris Ritter's father Matthias was headmaster at the Potsdam grammar school and choirmaster at St. Nikolai, which is the same church where Gundling will be buried in April 1731.
...now I wonder whether Dad Ritter when his boss was one of the valiant five to take a stand against FW either tried to talk him out of it (what if he has you whipped, too?) or encouraged him (At least this time, show the bastard!).
Anyway, Doris living in Potsdam, not Berlin, means both the strolls and the shared music playing must have taken place there as well.
St. Nikolai, which is the same church where Gundling will be buried in April 1731
Nitpick time: He was buried in the Bornstedter church, beyond Sanssouci. The Nicolaikirche was just where the funeral service took place and it's the huge dome right next to the Town Palace.
Oh, and the Adresskalender is actually for Berlin and Potsdam both, but I don't see a Ritter in 1729 or 1730, so her father's position must not have been important enough to be included.
Right, burial and funeral service, different churches. Still, as Cantor of Nicolai, Matthias Ritter would presumably have a front row seat to his superior refusing to hold the funeral service if Gundling didn't get a real coffin. If, that is, he still had the job in 1731.
Wiki says they only moved to Potsdam in 1728 when he got the job(s), - they lived in Perleberg before that - , so perhaps that's why he didn't make the 1729 address book yet. In 1730, otoh, he lost his job at the school immediately in September when Doris was whipped. I do hope he wasn't fired at the church as well, but wiki doesn't say. So the family might have had to move again.
As for the corresponendence, I'll get around to it, but only after Easter. Ordering always takes a few days, and next week I'm off to spend the Easter Holidays with the APs. I don't want a parcel with Stabi books standing around unsupervised in the floor!
Understood and agreed! No rush, no one is *dying* to know what Manteuffel said to Wolff in their three volumes of correspondence. ;) I just wanted to let you know it's out there, because you've Pavlovianly conditioned me that if I bring your attention to a book that you have access to, I will find out what's in that book without any effort on my part. <3 Enjoy your holidays!
Mind you, the description doesn't just say "historisch-kritische Ausgabe", it also says the languages used are French, Latin and German. Which gives me the unholy idea that we're dealing with an edition that doesn't include translations for Manteuffel's written in French letters. And if he and Wolff intermittently write in Latin as well - yikes! Henri de Catt with his occasional Latin was tough enough!
I had the same thought! But at least you can read the German letters, plus there seems to be a "Regest" before each letter summarizing it, which should at least tell us which French (or Latin!) letters are of interest.
ETA: Also, I like your use of "unholy." I'm going to start referring to Fraktur as unholy. :P
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Nothing to do with Jägerhof at all
Date: 2021-03-26 06:26 am (UTC)As for the corresponendence, I'll get around to it, but only after Easter. Ordering always takes a few days, and next week I'm off to spend the Easter Holidays with the APs. I don't want a parcel with Stabi books standing around unsupervised in the floor!
It would make sense if the envoys tended to gravitate toward or were assigned a specific dwelling.
Especially since it's there to have when the previous envoy moves out anyway, and also if you move to a new place, even if you bring some of your own servants and staff, you will inevitably also hire some locals. (For laundry, food delivery etc.) It's much more convenient to use already established connections than for you or your steward having to find the people in question in the first place.
Speaking of 1730: I briefly wondered where Doris Ritter lived to take those fatal chaperoned strolls with Fritz, but then I recalled she was in Potsdam, not Berlin. Checking wiki again, Doris Ritter's father Matthias was headmaster at the Potsdam grammar school and choirmaster at St. Nikolai, which is the same church where Gundling will be buried in April 1731.
...now I wonder whether Dad Ritter when his boss was one of the valiant five to take a stand against FW either tried to talk him out of it (what if he has you whipped, too?) or encouraged him (At least this time, show the bastard!).
Anyway, Doris living in Potsdam, not Berlin, means both the strolls and the shared music playing must have taken place there as well.
Re: Nothing to do with Jägerhof at all
Date: 2021-03-26 10:35 am (UTC)Nitpick time: He was buried in the Bornstedter church, beyond Sanssouci. The Nicolaikirche was just where the funeral service took place and it's the huge dome right next to the Town Palace.
Oh, and the Adresskalender is actually for Berlin and Potsdam both, but I don't see a Ritter in 1729 or 1730, so her father's position must not have been important enough to be included.
Re: Nothing to do with Jägerhof at all
Date: 2021-03-26 04:45 pm (UTC)Wiki says they only moved to Potsdam in 1728 when he got the job(s), - they lived in Perleberg before that - , so perhaps that's why he didn't make the 1729 address book yet. In 1730, otoh, he lost his job at the school immediately in September when Doris was whipped. I do hope he wasn't fired at the church as well, but wiki doesn't say. So the family might have had to move again.
Re: Nothing to do with Jägerhof at all
Date: 2021-03-26 05:26 pm (UTC)Understood and agreed! No rush, no one is *dying* to know what Manteuffel said to Wolff in their three volumes of correspondence. ;) I just wanted to let you know it's out there, because you've Pavlovianly conditioned me that if I bring your attention to a book that you have access to, I will find out what's in that book without any effort on my part. <3 Enjoy your holidays!
Re: Nothing to do with Jägerhof at all
Date: 2021-03-27 06:49 am (UTC)Re: Nothing to do with Jägerhof at all
Date: 2021-03-27 01:16 pm (UTC)ETA: Also, I like your use of "unholy." I'm going to start referring to Fraktur as unholy. :P