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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (pronunciation ⓘ; 24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian [a] military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). His successful martial career ...
Wallenstein, three-part historical drama by Friedrich Schiller, performed in 1798–99 and published in 1800. The three parts consist of a one-act prelude titled Wallensteins Lager (“Wallenstein’s Camp”) and two five-act tragedies, Die Piccolomini and Wallensteins Tod (“Wallenstein’s Death”), written.
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Albrecht von Wallenstein was a Bohemian soldier and statesman, commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years’ War. His alienation from the emperor and his political-military conspiracies led to his assassination.
There, on February 25, he, Trčka, Ilow, and other officers were murdered by soldiers under the command of the Irish general Walter Butler and the Scots colonels Walter Leslie and John Gordon. An English captain, Walter Devereux, ran his halberd through Wallenstein, who, roused from sleep, asked in vain for quarter.
Wallenstein was the most important military entrepreneur in the Thirty Years' War, and his alleged treason and murder have overshadowed the considerable success he had in his first imperial generalship (1625 – 1630), when he raised the emperor to the zenith of his power.
Jun 7, 2011 · One of the greatest generals of the Thirty Years War was Albrecht von Wallenstein. His fame as a military strategist and financial genius is matched only by his popular reputation as an extraordinarily ambitious, greedy, self-serving, arrogant, harsh and unscrupulous man, unmoved by true religious motivations and guided by astrological ...
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May 18, 2018 · Wallenstein, Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von (1583–1634) German general. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), he was commander of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire. He won a series of victories in the late 1620s, but lost the Battle of Lützen in 1632. He was later convicted of treason, dismissed, and then assassinated.
