provided he stops behaving like an imaginary sick person
Yeah, that's our Fritz, alright. Also, I seem to have gotten the hang on Prussian nobility connections, because the name Häseler sounded instantly familiar, and not from my long ago Hartmann reading; I checked your wiki link, and yes, this guy is the uncle of Lehndorff's first wife, Marie von Häseler. Her father was the envoy's younger brother Gottlieb, and both of them got enobled in 1733 by FW for services to the Prussian state because like Daum, their father was the head of a rich trading house, and they were also philanthropic. (Which means Lehndorff married an heiress of very recent nobility; bear in mind his older brother wasn't dead yet, meaning he was a younger brother of limited means, so that's fairly typical. It also means that maybe his diaries have some gossip on Uncle August. (Presumably volumes 2 onwards, since Schmidt-Lötzen cut out most of the stuff regarding Lehndorff's wives and their families from volume 1, thereby leaving me with a false impression of how important or not they were to him at first.)
Anyway, given that being envoy was one of those careers Lehndorff envisioned for himself rather than being EC's chamberlain, I'm now imagining August von Haeseler on a rare visit home rolling his eyes and pointing out what that actually means...
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Re: Fritz is not your dream boss: The Bad Pyrmont edition
Date: 2023-02-25 06:00 am (UTC)Yeah, that's our Fritz, alright. Also, I seem to have gotten the hang on Prussian nobility connections, because the name Häseler sounded instantly familiar, and not from my long ago Hartmann reading; I checked your wiki link, and yes, this guy is the uncle of Lehndorff's first wife, Marie von Häseler. Her father was the envoy's younger brother Gottlieb, and both of them got enobled in 1733 by FW for services to the Prussian state because like Daum, their father was the head of a rich trading house, and they were also philanthropic. (Which means Lehndorff married an heiress of very recent nobility; bear in mind his older brother wasn't dead yet, meaning he was a younger brother of limited means, so that's fairly typical. It also means that maybe his diaries have some gossip on Uncle August. (Presumably volumes 2 onwards, since Schmidt-Lötzen cut out most of the stuff regarding Lehndorff's wives and their families from volume 1, thereby leaving me with a false impression of how important or not they were to him at first.)
Anyway, given that being envoy was one of those careers Lehndorff envisioned for himself rather than being EC's chamberlain, I'm now imagining August von Haeseler on a rare visit home rolling his eyes and pointing out what that actually means...