Category Archives: German

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George II as Prince of Wales. 1683-1760

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst 1576-1621

Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the unified Principality of Anhalt. From 1603, he was ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

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Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym 1669-1727

Lebrecht was the younger son of Prince Viktor Amadeus of Anhalt-Bernburg (1634–1718) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1642–1677), daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich of Zweibrücken. Lebrecht received a careful education, which concluded with the Grand Tour. In 1683 he took part in the Great Turkish War together with Prince Johann Georg II of Anhalt-Dessau. In 1689 the raised Anhalt troops became imperial property, and with them Lebrecht also moved into imperial and later Hessian service. He fought in Hungary and on the Rhine.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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2353

Melchior Baron von Redern 1555 -1600

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

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Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt

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.
Date:
Size 7 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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1653

Georg Ulrich Graf von Wolkenstein-Rodenegg 1598-1663

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

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Abraham Gottlob Werner 1749-1818

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

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