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Georg Ernst Stahl
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Legacy and Institutional Role
Stahl served as the personal physician to Frederick William I of Prussia for a significant period, lending significant institutional weight to his sometimes esoteric medical doctrines. Although his chemical system was overturned by the quantitative chemical revolution of the late 18th century, the concept of anima persisted in medical discourse as a placeholder for unexplained biological organization well into the nineteenth century, often being rephrased as 'Nervous Energy' … -
Kingdom Of Prussia
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The Reign of Frederick William I: The 'Soldier King'
Frederick William I (r. 1713–1740) cemented Prussia’s reputation not through cultural patronage, but through meticulous administrative and military reorganization. He possessed an almost spiritual reverence for tall men, creating the famous Potsdam Giants, a regiment composed exclusively of soldiers exceeding six feet in height, acquired through extensive international espionage and bartering [^4].
Frederick William I's financial policies focused relentlessly on accumulating a massive treas…