Talk:Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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)