(probably still under extremely limited non-work computer time until the end of the week, but decided I needed to take a little break :) )
Lol to the one man defense squad! :) But yes, I'm glad you had a counterbalance :)
So... do we now think this was the Karl Emil that Fritz wanted AW's kid named after? I guess this makes sense given that everyone thought Karl Emil was awesome?
Unfortunately, fighting for future F1 also meant subjecting him to an endless series of medical tortures, iron corsets, getting pressed between weights to correct his spine and feet, until one Dr. Fey put an end to it and said the weight pressures especially were probably responsible for F1's asthma or at least it being so bad and could kill the kid.
UGH 18th-C medicine :P But go Dr. Fey!
And with geography, the princes were supposed to learn the names of towns and countries etc. in a non-dull manner by the teacher attaching interesting stories to them so they memorize them better.
OH HEY I empathize greatly with the soap opera interesting-story method of teaching! :DDDDDD But seriously, this seems very pedagogically sound for a 17th century guy, as you say :D
and the first time F1's mother Louise Henriette noticed this, she wrote a letter in protest, that "Fritzchen" surely would be better guided by kindness than by verbal abuse.
Aw, good for her! (Though sorry that it didn't... entirely...)
Baroque German: "Mein Bruder und ich wollen gelehrte Printzen werden. Aber Fritz wird ein Esel bleiben."
I didn't get all the words (I should have gotten more than I did, but I have slacked off on my German), but thanks to google translate I'm like DANCKELMANN
Hanette gives birth to a daughter - his only daughter, as it would happen - and dies after just a few years.
So one of the things that I am finding really annoys me about history is that people DON'T live happily ever after. WHY NOT, UNIVERSE.
So... do we now think this was the Karl Emil that Fritz wanted AW's kid named after? I guess this makes sense given that everyone thought Karl Emil was awesome?
Yes, and the name hadn't been used again in the current generation of Hohenzollerns. (Unlike Friedrich, Heinrich and Wilhelm in all possible combinations.) Given Fritz had written a Histoire de la Maison de Brandenburg, he must have known about the Elector's treasured oldest son. (And/or Pöllnitz told him some stories.)
I didn't get all the words (I should have gotten more than I did, but I have slacked off on my German), but thanks to google translate I'm like DANCKELMANN
Like I said to Mildred: I like my Severus Snape types and their methods of teaching to remain fictional!
The universe is most inconsiderate to the reading public, I agree.
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Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie
Date: 2021-08-12 05:20 am (UTC)Lol to the one man defense squad! :) But yes, I'm glad you had a counterbalance :)
So... do we now think this was the Karl Emil that Fritz wanted AW's kid named after? I guess this makes sense given that everyone thought Karl Emil was awesome?
Unfortunately, fighting for future F1 also meant subjecting him to an endless series of medical tortures, iron corsets, getting pressed between weights to correct his spine and feet, until one Dr. Fey put an end to it and said the weight pressures especially were probably responsible for F1's asthma or at least it being so bad and could kill the kid.
UGH 18th-C medicine :P But go Dr. Fey!
And with geography, the princes were supposed to learn the names of towns and countries etc. in a non-dull manner by the teacher attaching interesting stories to them so they memorize them better.
OH HEY I empathize greatly with the
soap operainteresting-story method of teaching! :DDDDDD But seriously, this seems very pedagogically sound for a 17th century guy, as you say :Dand the first time F1's mother Louise Henriette noticed this, she wrote a letter in protest, that "Fritzchen" surely would be better guided by kindness than by verbal abuse.
Aw, good for her! (Though sorry that it didn't... entirely...)
Baroque German: "Mein Bruder und ich wollen gelehrte Printzen werden. Aber Fritz wird ein Esel bleiben."
I didn't get all the words (I should have gotten more than I did, but I have slacked off on my German), but thanks to google translate I'm like DANCKELMANN
Hanette gives birth to a daughter - his only daughter, as it would happen - and dies after just a few years.
So one of the things that I am finding really annoys me about history is that people DON'T live happily ever after. WHY NOT, UNIVERSE.
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie
Date: 2021-08-12 07:49 am (UTC)Yes, and the name hadn't been used again in the current generation of Hohenzollerns. (Unlike Friedrich, Heinrich and Wilhelm in all possible combinations.) Given Fritz had written a Histoire de la Maison de Brandenburg, he must have known about the Elector's treasured oldest son. (And/or Pöllnitz told him some stories.)
I didn't get all the words (I should have gotten more than I did, but I have slacked off on my German), but thanks to google translate I'm like DANCKELMANN
Like I said to Mildred: I like my Severus Snape types and their methods of teaching to remain fictional!
The universe is most inconsiderate to the reading public, I agree.