Anyway, what I'm getting at is that if you were a well off Frederician citizen, you clearly could purchase an Erbbegräbnis.
Yeah. I was wondering how well off he was, because he's always being frugal in the sources we have on him, but maybe, between Fritz starting to gift him money, and him getting to take over Knobbelsdorf's jobs, finances got better in the 1750s. Or Ariane was like, "To heck with it!" and sold some of the art.
Anyway, it's pretty unlikely any other Keiths were already there, so it was probably started for him, and then Friedrich Ludwig was buried with him a few years later.
If he had been in Berlin already, and NOT gone to the funeral, it would have felt like a final put down to Peter's family.
Yeah. The face I was making was not "Too bad he just missed it," but more "Too bad he presumably had no interest in attending."
Otoh, I bet Lehndorff was present, and some of Peter's colleagues of the Academy.
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Had Maupertuis left yet? Ah, yeah, he left in June of 1756. So I guess he wasn't there either, although I imagine he would have been if he'd still been in Berlin.
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Re: Peter Keith in the archives!
Date: 2023-01-28 03:44 pm (UTC)Yeah. I was wondering how well off he was, because he's always being frugal in the sources we have on him, but maybe, between Fritz starting to gift him money, and him getting to take over Knobbelsdorf's jobs, finances got better in the 1750s. Or Ariane was like, "To heck with it!" and sold some of the art.
Anyway, it's pretty unlikely any other Keiths were already there, so it was probably started for him, and then Friedrich Ludwig was buried with him a few years later.
If he had been in Berlin already, and NOT gone to the funeral, it would have felt like a final put down to Peter's family.
Yeah. The face I was making was not "Too bad he just missed it," but more "Too bad he presumably had no interest in attending."
Otoh, I bet Lehndorff was present, and some of Peter's colleagues of the Academy.
<3
Had Maupertuis left yet? Ah, yeah, he left in June of 1756. So I guess he wasn't there either, although I imagine he would have been if he'd still been in Berlin.