05 Saturday Aug 2017
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I’ve just noticed that my 1794 copy of Campe’s Kinder Bibliothek has a library stamp from “Königl. Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnas.” which I presume is the Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium in Berlin (although it could be one of several others), once on the corner of Kochstraße and Friedrichstraße, sadly no longer extant.
I see that Bismarck was a pupil there, perhaps he read the same book?
13 Thursday Jul 2017
Today is the anniversary of the Emser Depesche incident, which led sofort to the Franco-Prussian War. The blame attached to Bismarck by most historians seems a little overdone to me, in line with general prussiabashing, but I’m no expert. If indeed the Prussians did provoke France into war it was a lesson well learnt by France/England/Russia in 1914, some would say.
Some more reading:
19 Friday May 2017
I found a not particularly flattering reference to “Der Tag ist angebrochen!” by Rudolph Dulon in “Briefwechsel des Generals Leopold von Gerlach mit dem Bundestags-Gesandten Otto von Bismarck” (20th May 1852).
Upon reading it, not only can I see why they were unimpressed, but also that Mencius Moldbug may have a point…
From Chapter 3, “Der Tag der Erkenntnis”:
Ihr seid Diener des Volks, unterworfen seinem Willen. Wollt ihr mehr sein, so ist das gegen Gottes Willen und gegen sein heilige Ordnung.
See, you can’t argue with Democracy, it’s the will of God.
24 Friday Feb 2017
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6th September 1849.
Preußen sind wir und Preußen wollen wir bleiben; ich weiß, daß ich mit diesen Worten das Bekenntnis der Preußischen Armee, das Bekenntnis der Mehrzahl meiner Landsleute ausspreche, und hoffe ich zu Gott, daß wir auch noch lange Preußen bleiben werden, wenn dieses Stück Papier vergessen sein wird, wie ein dürres Herbstblatt. (Lebhaftes Bravo!)
Fürst Bismarck’s Gesammelte Reden, Globus Verlag 1900
04 Wednesday Jan 2017
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I thought I’d add this here as I was looking for a quote to submit for possible inclusion into a book about the alte deutsche Schrift and liked this, but couldn’t find an exact attribution anywhere, so found it in my own copy of ‘Fürst Bismarcks Briefe an seine Braut und Gattin‘. Eventually.
… denn ich habe Dich geheirathet um Dich in Gott und nach dem Bedürfniß meines Herzens zu lieben, und um in der fremden Welt eine Stelle für mein Herz zu haben, die all ihre dürren Winde nicht erkälten und an der ich die Wärme des heimathlichen Kaminfeuers finde, an das ich mich dränge wenn es draußen stürmt und friert …
Fürst Bismarcks Briefe an seine Braut und Gattin, J.G. Cotta`sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, Stuttgart 1900. Letter #177, 14.5.1851, Page 277.
19 Wednesday Nov 2014
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On my trip to Hannover, a pleasant enough place but somewhat spoilt for someone of my appearance by the upcoming HoGeSa rally, I was delighted to see this shop window display.
Delighted enough to go in and ask the nice lady inside in my halting German if I could take a photo. I think she doubted my sanity, as indeed do I sometimes.
Anyway, signed letters from Hesse, Bismarck and Goethe, particularly interesting to me was the Bismarck one, as a historical item in itself, and also for the lovely script, however the lady didn’t know the price. My intention was to contact them online when I got back to England, but stupidly I didn’t write the name of the shop down and now can’t find it.
Anyone recognise it?
