Nobleman and General in the Imperial Army during the Ottoman Wars. A Protestant, Redern promoted the economic development of Friedland. Redern founded the mining town of Neustadt, Bohemia, in 1584 and the village of Weissenbach in 1594.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2353
Melchior Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt was an Imperial Field Marshal. He fought in the Thirty Years’ War first under Albrecht von Wallenstein and Matthias Gallas, then received an independent command in Westphalia.
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Size 7 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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German general. He was the son of Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental and Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Size 7.5 x 12.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Georg Ulrich von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck came from the Tyrolean noble family of Wolkenstein-Rodeneck and was born the son of Baron Sigmund von Wolkenstein (died March 18, 1624) and his wife Anna Helena von Firmian. Abbess Claudia Seraphica von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck (1625–1688) was his cousin. He owned Bruck Castle in East Tyrol, which he sold to Archduke Ferdinand Karl in 1642.
German canon and envoy to the Peace Congress of Westphalia, the Frankfurt Deputation Day (1643–1645), and the Imperial Diet in Regensburg in 1653.
Engraver: Matthäus Merian
Size 16 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1653
German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth’s crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism.
Artist: F.Rosmasler 1775-1858 Size 11.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:116
Frederick William I, known as the “Soldier King”, was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuchâtel. He was succeeded by his son, Frederick the Great.
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Size 17 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:663
Nicholas, Count of Salm (1459 – Salmhof, Marchegg, Lower Austria, 4 May 1530) was a German soldier and an Imperial senior military commander (German: Feldherr). His greatest achievement was the defense of Vienna during the first siege by the Ottoman Empire in 1529.
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Rudolf I, also known as Rudolf of Habsburg, was Count of Habsburg from about 1240 and King of Germany from 1273 until his death. Rudolf’s election marked the end of the Great Interregnum in the Holy Roman Empire after the death of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II in 1250
Size 7.4 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:332
Bohemian statesman. Imperial Privy Councillor and Chamberlain, Assessor of the Higher Regional Court and Vice President of the Chamber in Bohemia.
Size 15 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2969
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature.
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Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:502