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[edit] Odd Remark
The text includes an entry I find odd and disturbing:
Susceptible to feminine charm, he had many romances. Most of the girls were from poor families. In 1777 he met Maria Stechard , then aged 13, who lived with the professor permanently since 1780.
Exactly what is the import of including the reference to Maria Stechard immediately after stating Ls susceptibility to feminine charm (my, but doesn't that sounds like a phrase from out of a Victorian novel)? Is this meant to suggest that Professor Lichtenberg was a pedophile?
--Philopedia 11:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- O, that's just one of the aspects of Lichtenberg's personal life that biographers like to mention. You can change the phrasing if you think that's bad, of course. For me, a Chinese, marrying a teenage girl is by no means an abnormal thing, so nothing assoicated with pedophile occurs to me when I wrote that sentnece. (Edgar Poe also married his teenage counsin, right? I don't know that's such a sensitive matter in the West, sorry) --K.C. Tang 00:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
- As far as I know, Maria Stechard was 12 years old when she became Lichtenberg's housemaid and 13 when she became his lover. By all means, no, it doesn't mean Lichtenberg was a pedophile. Before the 19th century, sexual relationships in an age that young were not unusual. Sophie von Kühn was 12 when she first met Novalis and became his fiancée on her 13th birthday. Juliet Capulet, as depicted by Shakespeare, is 13, and, as her Wiki article correctly states, during the span of less than a week's time in which the play takes place, " she is courted by a potential husband, falls in love, marries illicitly, loses her virginity, experiences the death of a cousin she is close to, is threatened and nearly disowned by both of her parents, is betrayed by the nurse who raised her from infancy, becomes suicidal, spends nearly two days drugged to unconsciousness, is widowed, and commits suicide next to the body of her husband.". And yes, Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe when she was 13. --84.58.253.231 23:48, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
