I have two sets of historical documents (one Fredersdorf, one Peter Keith) that if we can figure out how to get them from the archives, I will legit pay you for a transcription.
I'd love to try! I am by no means infallible (and some handwritings are more hellish than others...), but I'd do my best (and i have more friends who know Kurrent and who could potentially help). Anything to get more stuff on Keith and Fredersdorf. Lots of people have been wanting transcriptions lately, maybe I should just do that full time :'D I've been coddled by the late 19th century and people with good handwriting lately, so I'm still a little sluggish when it comes to the worse parts, but I'll get back into the rhythm of it ^^
See if the Wust people can help you get a copy of Martin von Katte's unpublished manuscripts on the Katte family and on Hans Hermann!
I've been wanting those too and have already asked them about that when I visited in August! They gave me the e-mail adress of Dr. Maria von Katte and I've been trying to construct a proper e-mail since :D I'm an anxious mess though, so i haven't sent anything off yet. Still trying my best not to sound too weird. "Hello, I am emotionally attached to your dead distant cousin and I'd like nothing more than to read his private mail. The brochure from Wust says he wrote a letter to his, quote, "Engelsschwesterken" when he was a child and I just about died and need more context for this." I hoped that she would show up to the thing on Saturday (apparently she does vistit Wust at times) so I could ask in person and use my big shiny student eyes to convince her to help me, but she didn't (show up, that is). I have not dared to mention that the pic in the church is of de Catt, I'm not sure if we are on that level of friendship yet :'DD It's such an awkward thing to bring up. My friend and i were considering telling them when we visited last year, but alas...
Also also, one of the reasons I've been eagerly waiting for you to come back is that we need some transcription help with this very short record!
Oh boy, gotta love registries. Not the worst handwriting I've seen, I'll see what I can do :D The currency could/should be Reichst(h)aler I think...? The word in front of Queen is reigning, the first line of the heirs column says "ein Majorenner Sohn, (der)", so "one adult son". I'm reading Steckfluß too; that would be a pulmonary edema, so it would make sense. I'm at work right now, so I'm not in the best headspace to concentrate on this, but I'll get back to it later :D
The article about the Franckesche Stiftungen is here. Apparently it's partially a reaction to Roes' depiction of the school in Zeithain :'D Dr. Grunewald did not like that one, according to the Wust people. The list of crimes and punishments is in the appendix; there's also a list of names that's proof that Katte's friend Holtzendorff really was in Glaucha around the same time (I was wondering, since he's 3 to 4 years older than Katte...), the 19th century book that Kloosterhuis used as a source on him didn't mention that :DD I'd love to find out more about Holtzendorff other than "FW hated him, he was possibly a bit of a ho, and he dropped out of the Gens d'armes to basically become a banker"
I read your road-trip fic and loved it!
Aaah, thank you! :DD I'm still working on chapter 3, getting shit done is not my strong suit. There will be a proper kiss eventually, I promise! :'D If you want more old timey german and more Katte there's the one shot i wrote... :'D aka The Sad Thing I Published as opposed to The Modern AU Where Things Go Less Wrong. Speaking of that oneshot, there was a speaker in Wust who restores crypts for a living (very nice man, super interesting conversation, offered me an internship) and apparently the one in Golzow, where Katte's sister (and her husband, Rochow. The historically relevant of the two.) is buried, has been subject to, uh... incredible violence. I'm talking heads ripped off of mummies. I guess poor Fredersdorf was lucky after all, his coffin may have been destroyed, but at least from what I know *all* of his bones are buried somehwere on the churchyard of Zernikow... Also also one of Katte's nephews on that side apparently got murdered by a servant. Fun times in the Mittelmark :'D
The discord server is a fun bunch of people, they're all very sweet :D Mostly around my age, so early 20s. We talk about pretty much everything, there's proper historical work and discussions as well as a lot of memery and injokes (like Fritz and Voltaire's slightly demonic child, born of a Frev era conspiracy theory: The Hatred of Christianity, Prince/ss of Prussia). And fic writing. And more art. One of us is an animation student and made an animatic staring Voltaire (with appearances from Algarotti and Maupertuis) using his song from the weird musical :D I'll tell them you'd be happy to have new contributors over here. Gotta admit though, the salon is a little intimidating to, I quote, "humble shitposters" :'D
I saw Wilhelmine's travel diary too, thought about buying it :DD Good to see you've got it covered! I'll keep an eye out for the prussian archives too ^^
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Re: A mixture of stuff, mostly Katte related
Date: 2021-11-08 04:28 pm (UTC)I have two sets of historical documents (one Fredersdorf, one Peter Keith) that if we can figure out how to get them from the archives, I will legit pay you for a transcription.
I'd love to try! I am by no means infallible (and some handwritings are more hellish than others...), but I'd do my best (and i have more friends who know Kurrent and who could potentially help). Anything to get more stuff on Keith and Fredersdorf. Lots of people have been wanting transcriptions lately, maybe I should just do that full time :'D I've been coddled by the late 19th century and people with good handwriting lately, so I'm still a little sluggish when it comes to the worse parts, but I'll get back into the rhythm of it ^^
See if the Wust people can help you get a copy of Martin von Katte's unpublished manuscripts on the Katte family and on Hans Hermann!
I've been wanting those too and have already asked them about that when I visited in August! They gave me the e-mail adress of Dr. Maria von Katte and I've been trying to construct a proper e-mail since :D I'm an anxious mess though, so i haven't sent anything off yet. Still trying my best not to sound too weird. "Hello, I am emotionally attached to your dead distant cousin and I'd like nothing more than to read his private mail. The brochure from Wust says he wrote a letter to his, quote, "Engelsschwesterken" when he was a child and I just about died and need more context for this." I hoped that she would show up to the thing on Saturday (apparently she does vistit Wust at times) so I could ask in person and use my big shiny student eyes to convince her to help me, but she didn't (show up, that is).
I have not dared to mention that the pic in the church is of de Catt, I'm not sure if we are on that level of friendship yet :'DD It's such an awkward thing to bring up. My friend and i were considering telling them when we visited last year, but alas...
Also also, one of the reasons I've been eagerly waiting for you to come back is that we need some transcription help with this very short record!
Oh boy, gotta love registries. Not the worst handwriting I've seen, I'll see what I can do :D The currency could/should be Reichst(h)aler I think...? The word in front of Queen is reigning, the first line of the heirs column says "ein Majorenner Sohn, (der)", so "one adult son". I'm reading Steckfluß too; that would be a pulmonary edema, so it would make sense. I'm at work right now, so I'm not in the best headspace to concentrate on this, but I'll get back to it later :D
The article about the Franckesche Stiftungen is here. Apparently it's partially a reaction to Roes' depiction of the school in Zeithain :'D Dr. Grunewald did not like that one, according to the Wust people. The list of crimes and punishments is in the appendix; there's also a list of names that's proof that Katte's friend Holtzendorff really was in Glaucha around the same time (I was wondering, since he's 3 to 4 years older than Katte...), the 19th century book that Kloosterhuis used as a source on him didn't mention that :DD I'd love to find out more about Holtzendorff other than "FW hated him, he was possibly a bit of a ho, and he dropped out of the Gens d'armes to basically become a banker"
I read your road-trip fic and loved it!
Aaah, thank you! :DD I'm still working on chapter 3, getting shit done is not my strong suit. There will be a proper kiss eventually, I promise! :'D If you want more old timey german and more Katte there's the one shot i wrote... :'D aka The Sad Thing I Published as opposed to The Modern AU Where Things Go Less Wrong. Speaking of that oneshot, there was a speaker in Wust who restores crypts for a living (very nice man, super interesting conversation, offered me an internship) and apparently the one in Golzow, where Katte's sister (and her husband, Rochow. The historically relevant of the two.) is buried, has been subject to, uh... incredible violence. I'm talking heads ripped off of mummies. I guess poor Fredersdorf was lucky after all, his coffin may have been destroyed, but at least from what I know *all* of his bones are buried somehwere on the churchyard of Zernikow... Also also one of Katte's nephews on that side apparently got murdered by a servant. Fun times in the Mittelmark :'D
The discord server is a fun bunch of people, they're all very sweet :D Mostly around my age, so early 20s. We talk about pretty much everything, there's proper historical work and discussions as well as a lot of memery and injokes (like Fritz and Voltaire's slightly demonic child, born of a Frev era conspiracy theory: The Hatred of Christianity, Prince/ss of Prussia). And fic writing. And more art. One of us is an animation student and made an animatic staring Voltaire (with appearances from Algarotti and Maupertuis) using his song from the weird musical :D I'll tell them you'd be happy to have new contributors over here. Gotta admit though, the salon is a little intimidating to, I quote, "humble shitposters" :'D
I saw Wilhelmine's travel diary too, thought about buying it :DD Good to see you've got it covered!
I'll keep an eye out for the prussian archives too ^^