i take it you are a professor or something - and don't like the way i research things on the net. well, i agree. i am lazy and i don't read german. so i kind of piece things together as best i can. people like the story. and it generally has a flow. so...
but, where do you think more accurate information is - besides thayer. or perhaps i should say - the third volume of thayer (which i've not read). i think i shall sit down with thayer again at leisure.
must find more time to do scholarly research. i kind of need someone to pay me. do you know anyone that would?