Gambitten's post of individual sources has already been put in Rheinsberg, and I can create a tag covering both posts (and any future individual source posts we may create).
Individual public domain pdfs can be downloaded and put in the Frederician library. Feel free to bring my attention to any you would like archived there! I'm looking mostly for websites that are good for research purposes, although you'll notice I included a couple maps, and we could also have a blog post/news article section for things that can't be readily downloaded, and we could add more to the map section.
I've only been meaning to do this since we founded Rheinsberg in January 2020, lol.
Wilhelmine's French and Italian Journey website, which has both the neat map you once admired and lots of letters she wrote and received during her travels, not just by Fritz but by other family members, transcribed in the orignal French, in a German translation, and with many (though not all) scanned so you see the original document as well.
Maybe the main page for the Hohenzollern Yearbook? I know you wanted to include single issues in the library, but on the overview page you can search all of them at once for a name or a key word, which can be useful.
And I don't know if it's something to include, but I've been wanting to ask if the KVK works in your part of the world? It's a meta search enginge for library catalogues and you can even tick a box saying you only want digital versions of the book you are looking for. It can get unwieldly and/or time out, which is why it usually isn't my first stop, but it has proven useful quite often (IIRC I found the Schöning book that way for example).
I think the Hohenzollern Yearbook page fits, like the Adresskalender, in that it's a collection and I don't want to have to download every *single* volume. I'll add it.
I didn't know about the KVK! Have tried it out and found something selenak had been wondering about.
Formey, he of the "because of reasons, Peter left Wesel soon after arriving" euphemism, has in his list of works on Wikipedia a "Sermon à l’occasion de la mort du prince de Prusse." Selena had been wondering what possible euphemisms he managed to make Fritz and AW look simultaneously good.
Well! What I've found is that the 1767 date wasn't the work being published after it was written, it was actually key. The "prince de Prusse" in question, according to a longer title, is Frederic Henri Charles, aka Henricus Minor. So that answers that. And I can remove that card from my Trello list. ;)
A minor mystery cleared up! Thank you for checking.
BTW, having dipped in and out of Bielfeld's letters, I see one of them is entirely about AW on the occasion of his death, which Bielfeld coems across as genuinely distressed about, and there he - at least in the English translation you've uploaded - manages to avoid mentioning the AW/Fritz fallout altogether. AW withdraws from the field because reasons. The letter is mostly praise, with the critique consisting of AW being undereducated and not appreciating books enough and overestimating the military vis a vis men of letters as long as FW is king, for which however Bielfeld blames FW, and he then adds AW went through a massive self improvement and catching-up-on-reading program once Fritz became King. Oh, and Bielfeld also notes something Lehndorff includes in his diaries as well, and which is in Ziebura: that AW, while not admonishing his kids in public (unlike you-know-who), also "out of mistaken shame" refrained from showing them tenderness in public, too, only playing with them in private, which Bielfeld (but not Lehndorff) contracts with him having been able to be openly affectionate with his younger brothers and sisters and thus can't really understand.* Otherwise the entire letter is grief and praise and given the letters were published as far as I recall just a few years after the 7 Years War as good as an official obituary navigating around the big elephant as you'd get. (This is true no matter whether the letter was entirely a literate one - i.e. written years after the fact - or based on an actual letter from the time.)
*At a guess, the problem wasn't the "being affectionate towards children in public" part, it was the "being a father in public" part, which is different from being a big brother. Especially if your own father, no matter how much he favored you, was FW. Or perhaps because he favored you; if none of the kids are petted or yelled at in public, you can hardly be less FW like.
At a guess, the problem wasn't the "being affectionate towards children in public" part, it was the "being a father in public" part, which is different from being a big brother. Especially if your own father, no matter how much he favored you, was FW. Or perhaps because he favored you; if none of the kids are petted or yelled at in public, you can hardly be less FW like.
Yep. This makes perfect sense. Especially since, again judging by Ziebura, he didn't feel emotionally ready to be a father when little FW2 was born, and didn't like being teased about it.
*At a guess, the problem wasn't the "being affectionate towards children in public" part, it was the "being a father in public" part, which is different from being a big brother. Especially if your own father, no matter how much he favored you, was FW. Or perhaps because he favored you; if none of the kids are petted or yelled at in public, you can hardly be less FW like.
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Rheinsberg links
Date: 2021-03-26 07:33 pm (UTC)- Everything we've already got in the links section, obviously.
- Munich Stabi
- Berlin Stabi
- SLUB
- Hathitrust
- archive.org
- Google books (en and de)
- Trier, especially the Œuvres and the political correspondence
- Prussian state archives
- Adresskalender (missing 1777-1787 years)
- Box bills of Frederick the Great
- Academy of Sciences records
- Seven Years War project
- Tout Voltaire
- Voltaire foundation
- 1748 Berlin map
- 1740 Europe map
What else?
Gambitten's post of individual sources has already been put in Rheinsberg, and I can create a tag covering both posts (and any future individual source posts we may create).
Individual public domain pdfs can be downloaded and put in the Frederician library. Feel free to bring my attention to any you would like archived there! I'm looking mostly for websites that are good for research purposes, although you'll notice I included a couple maps, and we could also have a blog post/news article section for things that can't be readily downloaded, and we could add more to the map section.
I've only been meaning to do this since we founded Rheinsberg in January 2020, lol.
Re: Rheinsberg links
Date: 2021-03-27 06:46 am (UTC)Re: Rheinsberg links
Date: 2021-03-27 01:08 pm (UTC)Re: Rheinsberg links
Date: 2021-03-27 04:38 pm (UTC)I would also like to get these annotated better, and for that matter, an annotated bibliography would be nice, but...one day!
Re: Rheinsberg links
Date: 2021-03-28 06:37 pm (UTC)And I don't know if it's something to include, but I've been wanting to ask if the KVK works in your part of the world? It's a meta search enginge for library catalogues and you can even tick a box saying you only want digital versions of the book you are looking for. It can get unwieldly and/or time out, which is why it usually isn't my first stop, but it has proven useful quite often (IIRC I found the Schöning book that way for example).
Re: Rheinsberg links
Date: 2021-03-28 10:09 pm (UTC)I didn't know about the KVK! Have tried it out and found something
Formey, he of the "because of reasons, Peter left Wesel soon after arriving" euphemism, has in his list of works on Wikipedia a "Sermon à l’occasion de la mort du prince de Prusse." Selena had been wondering what possible euphemisms he managed to make Fritz and AW look simultaneously good.
Well! What I've found is that the 1767 date wasn't the work being published after it was written, it was actually key. The "prince de Prusse" in question, according to a longer title, is Frederic Henri Charles, aka Henricus Minor. So that answers that. And I can remove that card from my Trello list. ;)
KVK will go in the links list as well, thank you!
Obituaries
Date: 2021-03-29 05:13 am (UTC)BTW, having dipped in and out of Bielfeld's letters, I see one of them is entirely about AW on the occasion of his death, which Bielfeld coems across as genuinely distressed about, and there he - at least in the English translation you've uploaded - manages to avoid mentioning the AW/Fritz fallout altogether. AW withdraws from the field because reasons. The letter is mostly praise, with the critique consisting of AW being undereducated and not appreciating books enough and overestimating the military vis a vis men of letters as long as FW is king, for which however Bielfeld blames FW, and he then adds AW went through a massive self improvement and catching-up-on-reading program once Fritz became King. Oh, and Bielfeld also notes something Lehndorff includes in his diaries as well, and which is in Ziebura: that AW, while not admonishing his kids in public (unlike you-know-who), also "out of mistaken shame" refrained from showing them tenderness in public, too, only playing with them in private, which Bielfeld (but not Lehndorff) contracts with him having been able to be openly affectionate with his younger brothers and sisters and thus can't really understand.* Otherwise the entire letter is grief and praise and given the letters were published as far as I recall just a few years after the 7 Years War as good as an official obituary navigating around the big elephant as you'd get. (This is true no matter whether the letter was entirely a literate one - i.e. written years after the fact - or based on an actual letter from the time.)
*At a guess, the problem wasn't the "being affectionate towards children in public" part, it was the "being a father in public" part, which is different from being a big brother. Especially if your own father, no matter how much he favored you, was FW. Or perhaps because he favored you; if none of the kids are petted or yelled at in public, you can hardly be less FW like.
Re: Obituaries
Date: 2021-03-30 04:49 pm (UTC)Yep. This makes perfect sense. Especially since, again judging by Ziebura, he didn't feel emotionally ready to be a father when little FW2 was born, and didn't like being teased about it.
Re: Obituaries
Date: 2021-04-01 05:19 am (UTC):( Man, Hohenzollerns.