Prose and Passion

Names with a geographically defined origin - kind of a series. When I was looking into the connection to Grace Kelly's ancestor Leonh...

Pirate Luthier update A friendly freegler who had already donated a violin previously, came back with one she rescued from a skip, which i...

In a blog entry nearly 20 years ago I mentioned the ancestry of Grace Kelly featuring (at number 1822) a certain Leonhard Treusch who is a...

News this week is that Springer Nature is selling off both Scientific American and Spektrum der Wissenschaft - and to different buyers as w...

I attended a Cell Press symposium about microbiomes and their interactions with the host organism at Bruges in May. It was mostly about the ...

I've been reading some classics in Latin the last two weeks, even if it's only classic comics ... I recently spotted two Aste...

Now to the task of organising that family network of Lutheran clergymen. I did publish an alphabetical list of the ancestors at the bottom o...

One of the nuggets of family history information that have been handed down the generations ever since Christoph Gottlieb Kauer and Margare...

In mid-May, at the tail end of my recent travel, the hantavirus outbreak on board the cruiseship Hondius dominated the news for a few days t...

After compiling CVs of a dozen protestant priests in the ancestry of Helene Kauer (see the list at the bottom of last week's entry ), I ...

Pirate Luthier update An entirely new kind of challenge turned up on the pirate luthier ship last week. On Wednesday, a new bassoonist fro...

I am reaching the point where practically everybody in the ancestry of our teacher Johann Gottlieb Weiß is a clergyman or a close relativ...