Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, was both an avid collector of relics and a supporter of modern scholarship. He was educated at an Augustinian monastery and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

The Elector of Saxony in 1617 would have to be every bit ... century European Enlightenment's desire . . . to know, to map and to control the wider world.

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and waiting for the Elector of Saxony to renovate a castle for her use. While Luther traveled, preached, and wrote, Katie (with the help of aunt, children, and servants) sowed and reaped the ...

Year 1763 the Seven Years War is about to end August III Elector of Saxony and King of Poland has died leaving empty the royal treasury and an extraordinary collection of paintings sculptures ...

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the first son of the Elector Ernst of the House of Wettin. In 1486 he succeeded his father, together with his younger brother John, as sovereign of Ernestine Saxony. He was a man of peaceful ...

who claimed to know the secret of metal transmutation (the changing of base metals into gold or silver), was being held captive in Dresden by Christian II the Elector of Saxony. The elector jailed ...

At last, the Kurfuerst (Elector) of Saxony sends troops to arrest Kohlhaas and his men, but they are defeated repeatedly. After a visit to Luther, Kohlhaas realizes that the acts of his group have ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.