Dragon27 wrote:The problem is that something being "unsuspected" (in this case - language skills) is not a well-defined objective property. We're basically sharing here personal experiences - I found out that this famous person knows languages and I had no idea!
My thoughts exactly. I’m happy to see that Leibniz is being discussed here as a celebrity (just imagine tabloid covers: Newton vs Lebniz — what a wonderful world it must be!) but in his case I’m not surprised at all.