HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA
FREDERICK THE GREAT
By Thomas Carlyle
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOKS CHAPTERS
22 VOLUMES
Project Gutenberg Editor's Note
Reproofing this old Project Gutenberg edition of the History of
Frederick the Great has been both rewarding and disappointing. Each of
the first 21 original volumes had many hundreds of errors corrected—many
remain. The editor was fortunate to have a good printed set of all 22
volumes available for reference when there were questions in the etext.
The original PG edition had some severe basic problems: two of the most
important were first, that the etext was posted in the ASCII character
set--a heavy defect in books full of words in German; and second, the
footnotes were not marked as such in the etext but rather the footnote
material was simply inserted into the main text making it impossible
most of the time to tell what is text and what footnote. Another of the
peculiarities in this set: many words are a combination of lower and
upper case—likely done in the original contributor's print copy for
emphasis of certain syllables.
In spite of the many months taken in correcting the 22 volumes, they are
reposted with regret they are not better and with the realization the
renovated edition is a poor representation of this great work. This
reposting I consider an interim step, with the hope another volunteer
will someday produce a new PG edition from new scans saved in unicode or
Latin-1 with linked footnotes--a project I am unlikely to have time to
accomplish.
David Widger
June 12, 2008
BOOKS BOOK I. -- BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. - 1712.
BOOK II. -- OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417.
BOOK III. -- THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718
BOOK IV. -- FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713-1728.
BOOK V. -- DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. -
1723-1726.
BOOK VI. -- DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT
UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. - 1727-1730.
BOOK VII. -- FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. - Feb.-
Nov., 1730.
BOOK VIII. -- CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN - Nov. 1730-
February, 1732.
BOOK IX. -- LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. -
1732-1736.
BOOK X. -- AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.
BOOK XI. -- FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. -- June-December, 1740.
BOOK XII. -- FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE,
BEGINS. -- December, 1740-May, 1741.
BOOK XIII. -- FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE
ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. -- May, 1741-July, 1742.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ALL CHAPTERS
BOOK I. -- BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. -- 1712.
Chapter I. -- PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT. 1.
FRIEDRICH THEN, AND FRIEDRICH NOW. 2. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3. ENGLISH
PREPOSSESSIONS. 4. ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS.
Chapter II. -- FRIEDRICH'S BIRTH.
Chapter III. -- FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION.
Chapter IV. -- FATHER'S MOTHER.
Chapter V. -- KING FRIEDRICH I.
BOOK II. -- OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417.
Chapter I. -- BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.
Chapter II. -- PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.
Chapter III. -- MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG. END OF THE FIRST SHADOWY
LINE. SECOND SHADOWY LINE. SUBSTANTIAL MARKGRAVES: GLIMPSE OF THE
CONTEMPORARY KAISERS.
Chapter IV. -- ALBERT THE BEAR.
Chapter V. -- CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA. CONRAD HAS
BECOME BURGGRAF OF NURNBERG (A.D. 1170). OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES
GENERALLY.
Chapter VI. -- THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER. HEAD OF TEUTSCH
ORDER MOVES TO VENICE. TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN. THE STUFF
TEUTSCH RITTERS WERE MADE OF CONRAD OF THURINGEN: SAINT ELIZABETH; TOWN
OF MARBURG.
Chapter VII. -- MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH. BURGGRAF
FRIEDRICH III.; AND THE ANARCHY OF NINETEEN YEARS. KAISER RUDOLF AND
BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.
Chapter VIII. -- ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG. OF BERLIN CITY.
MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW
Chapter IX. -- BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV. CONTESTED ELECTIONS IN THE REICH:
KAISER ALBERT I.; AFTER WHOM SIX NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS. OF KAISER HENRY
VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS. HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA;
AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.
Chapter X. -- BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.
Chapter XI. -- BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG. A RESUSCITATED
ASCANIER; THE FALSE WALDEMAR. MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH.
Chapter XII. -- BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN
KURFURSTS. END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT.
SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN
BRANDENBURG.
Chapter XIII. -- LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
Chapter XIV. -- BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI. SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF
BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO. COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG
IN PAWN. BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE
PFALZ IS KAISER. SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER. BRANDENBURG
IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME. THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG
KAISERS.
BOOK III. -- THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718
Chapter I. -- KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.