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Albrecht Václav (Wenzel) Eusebius of Waldstein as a historical personality |
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Albrecht of Waldstein
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By Administrator Valdštejn on
5/16/2007 8:31 AM
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Albrecht of Waldstein´s personality: the role of the Waldstein dynasty in the Czech and Moravian history before Albrecht´s birth, influence of “Brothers of Common Life“ confraternity on Albrecht´s education, studies at evangelical schools abroad and his knightly tour of Europe, choice of military career as a way of selfrealization, conversion to Catholicism and its reasons
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Albrecht of Waldstein as a soldier and commander |
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Albrecht of Waldstein
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By Administrator Valdštejn on
5/16/2007 6:33 AM
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This part of the exhibition will be stratified into three mingling horizons: the first in the background of the main protagonist, the second one drawing the outlines of development of military in the end of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries together with crucial events and main personalities active in the Thirty Years´ War
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The Waldsteins |
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Albrecht of Waldstein
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By Administrator Valdštejn on
5/9/2007 12:57 PM
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The first mention about the Waldsteins can be found already in the year 1159 in the person of Markvart of Waldstein, chamberlain of the king Vladislav II
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Albrecht of Waldstein – steep rise, rapid fall |
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Albrecht of Waldstein
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By Administrator Valdštejn on
1/31/2007 3:03 AM
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Albrecht Václav (Wenzel) Eusebius of Waldstein (von
Wallenstein), which were all his names, was born in 1583 at the Heřmanice
(Hermanicz) Fort to Margarete Smiricky, Vilém of Waldstein´s wife. Vilém was a
member of an old manorial family. Albrecht was an orphan since his 12 and he
was commended into foster care to Jindřich Slavata of Chlum. He attended
Lutheran grammar school in Silesian Goldberg, then he went on and studied at
Nüremberg Municipal Academy in Altdorf. Because of a disciplinary conflict he
had to leave it very soon. Following the advice of his uncle Adam of Waldstein
he set out on a then very usual knightly journey abroad. We do not know its
exact itinerary but he surely also visited Italy whose culture enchanted him.
Thanks to his studies and travelling Waldstein could speak many languages and
besides Czech, Latin, German and Italian he could partially speak Spanish and
French too. When he returned to Bohemia in 1602 ...
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