Doctor van Swieten’s range of expertise far transcended his specific medical field. Among his many activities, he reorganised public health care and education, headed the Imperial Library, and relaxed the censorship rules. That is why Archduchess Marianne gladly engages in a long, satisfying conversation with him about the nature and mechanics of superstition. Since the […]
So far, Archduchess Marianne has been quite alone in her investigation, with the exception of Amalia and Father Franz, her initial supporters and sources of inspiration. Now she finds a new collaborator of similar disposition in the person of the court physician Doctor van Swieten. Marianne’s instinctive repulsion towards the ignorant gossip surrounding Princess Schwarzenberg […]
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