The original Karl Emil! (Don't name your kid Karl Emil is what I learned.)
Clearly! I guess at some point I'll have to read Jürgen Luh's big new biography of the Elector to find out why he did in the first place, given it's such a non-Hohenzollerian name...
Lehndorff: *fistbump of solidarity*
I thought of Lehndorff repeatedly when reading about all the ways they tried to correct F1's bones. At least Lehndorff's back was okay and he didn't get weights of iron on his breast?
See, SOME people, like Sonsine, had figured this out even centuries ago! SOME people still haven't figured it out even today. :(
Here's the letter Louise Henriette wrote on Christmas Day 1666 to future F1's governor Schwerin:
Monsieur, it is also necessary for me to tell you that ther are people who reported to me that Monsieur Danckelmann fiercely attacks Fritzchen during his studies - rudoyoit fort, Schmidt says, is the original expression the Electress used - people who have heard it themselves. I must admit that this is something extremely repellent to me. (...)It could damage his health and his soul. I ask you not to permit it any longer and to signal to (Danckelmann) that this does not please me. I believe his intentions to be good, that he wants (F1) to learn much. But (F1) knows enough for his age, and gentleness is the best methods to win children (douceur est la meilleur méthode pour gagner les enfants).
SO MUCH HATE.
I know. When I read it, I thought: if you're THAT kind of a jerk, Danckelmann, I won't feel sorry at all when you fall.
The Severus Snape method of teaching: only entertaining to read about in fiction. Now Danckelmann, like Snape, had positives going for him - he was a tireless worker dedicated to the state, and there's a reason why him falling from power and Wartenberg gaining it was regarded as such a disaster for centuries. Undoubtedly, too, the trial and the ensueing prison sentence was unfair. But nothing I've read about him made me think he should have been a teacher. (If he was a prodigy able to defend a thesis at university level at 12, undoubtedly little F1 appeared slow to him by comparison.)
HOHENZOLLERN DADS OMG WTF
The Three Georges of Britain and Hanover: Why? This was certainly the most normal thing ever to state about a son. We all said this about our eldest!
Clearly! I guess at some point I'll have to read Jürgen Luh's big new biography of the Elector to find out why he did in the first place, given it's such a non-Hohenzollerian name...
Ooh, yes, do! For many reasons, not just Karl Emil.
The Severus Snape method of teaching: only entertaining to read about in fiction.
Right? Snape is one of my (predicatably) problematic faves in fiction, but I would never let him around a child in real life!
(If he was a prodigy able to defend a thesis at university level at 12, undoubtedly little F1 appeared slow to him by comparison.)
Oh, yeah, that makes total sense. I *cough* have not always been the most patient teacher either, though I'm trying to get better.
The Three Georges of Britain and Hanover: Why? This was certainly the most normal thing ever to state about a son. We all said this about our eldest!
Both Schmidt and Göse provide scans from F1's exercise books, but it's tellling for the overall emphasis which different translation exercises as given by Danckemann they picked:
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Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie
Date: 2021-08-08 02:24 pm (UTC)Clearly! I guess at some point I'll have to read Jürgen Luh's big new biography of the Elector to find out why he did in the first place, given it's such a non-Hohenzollerian name...
Lehndorff: *fistbump of solidarity*
I thought of Lehndorff repeatedly when reading about all the ways they tried to correct F1's bones. At least Lehndorff's back was okay and he didn't get weights of iron on his breast?
See, SOME people, like Sonsine, had figured this out even centuries ago! SOME people still haven't figured it out even today. :(
Here's the letter Louise Henriette wrote on Christmas Day 1666 to future F1's governor Schwerin:
Monsieur, it is also necessary for me to tell you that ther are people who reported to me that Monsieur Danckelmann fiercely attacks Fritzchen during his studies - rudoyoit fort, Schmidt says, is the original expression the Electress used - people who have heard it themselves. I must admit that this is something extremely repellent to me. (...)It could damage his health and his soul. I ask you not to permit it any longer and to signal to (Danckelmann) that this does not please me. I believe his intentions to be good, that he wants (F1) to learn much. But (F1) knows enough for his age, and gentleness is the best methods to win children (douceur est la meilleur méthode pour gagner les enfants).
SO MUCH HATE.
I know. When I read it, I thought: if you're THAT kind of a jerk, Danckelmann, I won't feel sorry at all when you fall.
The Severus Snape method of teaching: only entertaining to read about in fiction. Now Danckelmann, like Snape, had positives going for him - he was a tireless worker dedicated to the state, and there's a reason why him falling from power and Wartenberg gaining it was regarded as such a disaster for centuries. Undoubtedly, too, the trial and the ensueing prison sentence was unfair. But nothing I've read about him made me think he should have been a teacher. (If he was a prodigy able to defend a thesis at university level at 12, undoubtedly little F1 appeared slow to him by comparison.)
HOHENZOLLERN DADS OMG WTF
The Three Georges of Britain and Hanover: Why? This was certainly the most normal thing ever to state about a son. We all said this about our eldest!
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie
Date: 2021-08-08 06:13 pm (UTC)Ooh, yes, do! For many reasons, not just Karl Emil.
The Severus Snape method of teaching: only entertaining to read about in fiction.
Right? Snape is one of my (predicatably) problematic faves in fiction, but I would never let him around a child in real life!
(If he was a prodigy able to defend a thesis at university level at 12, undoubtedly little F1 appeared slow to him by comparison.)
Oh, yeah, that makes total sense. I *cough* have not always been the most patient teacher either, though I'm trying to get better.
The Three Georges of Britain and Hanover: Why? This was certainly the most normal thing ever to state about a son. We all said this about our eldest!
*spittake*
HANOVER DADS OMG WTF
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie - Illustration
Date: 2021-08-09 05:11 am (UTC)Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie - Illustration
Date: 2021-08-09 10:09 pm (UTC)Such lovely handwriting, though! I can only admire and envy (and wish all historical records were that clear).