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20 mar 2022 · Wallenstein; sein Leben erzählt. by. Mann, Golo, 1909-1994. Publication date. 1971. Topics. Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, Herzog von Friedland, 1583-1634. Publisher.
Front Cover: Wallenstein mounted. Anon c.1625. Public domain. Back Cover: Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein, from Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen, Leipzig 1854. Public domain. Book 1 title page: Maximilian of Bavaria. Medallion from 1623-4, after he gained the Electoral crown. Bode Museum, Berlin. Public domain.
25 set 2012 · In this new biography of Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Geoff Mortimer offers an apologetic, if not openly laudatory, image of the (in)famous Imperial generalissimo. In his opinion, Wallenstein is the victim of competing legends concerning his headstrong and irrational character.
- David Lederer
- 2012
- Abstract
- I. Albrecht Von Wallenstein
- II. The Massacre at Eger: 25 February 1634
- III. Reactions to Wallenstein’s Death in Diplomatic Circles
- IV. Wallenstein’s Assassination in Newsprint
- V. The Massacre of Eger in The Arts
- VI. Wallenstein in The Late Seventeenth Century
- VII. Conclusion
Shortly after 10 p.m. on 25 February 1634, a party of thirty imperial soldiers descended on the market square of Eger, in Bohemia.1 Seven men entered one of the finest residences in the prosperous town and climbed the stairs to the lodgings on the first floor, killing one servant and wounding another during their ascent. The soldiers found their ta...
Born into a minor branch of a Bohemian aristocratic family in 1583, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein entered imperial service in 1619 and was a major beneficiary of the land transfers following the defeat of the Bohemian rebels at the Battle of White Mountain in November 1620. By 1624, Wallenstein had accumulated property spanning approxima...
Wallenstein set out west from Pilsen with approximately 1,300 men on 22 February and commanded Walter Butler, the Irish Catholic colonel of a 900-strong dragoon regiment, to join him. Butler, together with the Scots Lieutenant-Colonel John Gordon and Major Walter Leslie had already been identified by Piccolomini as willing assassins by the end of J...
The news of Wallenstein’s assassination prompted a range of responses throughout Europe. The Venetian ambassador in England reported that the events at Eger ‘come as a great relief to all those who openly side with the house of Austria’, whilst epistolary evidence shows that notable Protestant figures were divided in their reactions.33 To those who...
Unlike Gustavus Adolphus and Johann Tserclaes von Tilly, general field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) of the imperial and Catholic League forces, Wallenstein rarely featured in the print media during his lifetime in spite of his prominence and remarkable rise to the rank of generalissimo.66 However, the events at Eger swiftly generated a media feed...
The assassination of Wallenstein prompted a flourishing of literary output. In addition to a variety of epitaphs in Latin and German, the fate of the late generalissimo inspired a number of poetic works which reflected the entire spectrum of views regarding the events at Eger.94 For example, whilst the Spanish satirical poem La toma de Valles Ronce...
In the later seventeenth century, writers no longer doubted Wallenstein’s alleged ambitions for the Bohemian throne and the overthrow of Ferdinand II. The first German novel, Simplicissimus, a near-contemporary and semi-autobiographical account of experiences of the Thirty Years War which was first published in the late 1660s, mentions the events a...
An assessment of the reaction to—and depiction of—the events at Eger in the territories examined in this article provides a useful insight into the distribution of intelligence and news in the early modern period. The correspondence of diplomats and ambassadors as they scrambled for information about how and why Wallenstein was killed allows histor...
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (pronunciation ⓘ; 24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, o Waldstein, Valdštejn (Heřmanice, 24 settembre 1583 – Cheb, 25 febbraio 1634), è stato un generale e politico tedesco, di origine boema, tra i più celebri del suo tempo. Prestò i suoi servigi all'Imperatore Ferdinando II durante la guerra dei trent'anni.
1 mar 2003 · Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein (or Waldstein), duke of Friedland, may best epitomize the phenomenon of a military entrepreneur. Born into a family of minor Czech nobility in 1583,...
