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There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun elector, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Title: Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. Artist: Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg) Sitter: Portrait of Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. Date: 1524. Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 4 15/16 in. (19.1 × 12.5 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: George Khuner Collection, Bequest of Marianne ...
John George III (born June 20, 1647, Dresden, Saxony [Germany]—died September 12, 1691, Tübingen, Württemberg) was the elector of Saxony (1680–91). He forsook the vacillating foreign policy of his father, John George II, and in June 1683 joined an alliance against France. Having raised the first standing army in the electorate, he helped ...
Definition of elector noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Wettin dynasty. Augustus (born July 31, 1526, Freiberg, Saxony—died February 12, 1586, Dresden, Saxony) was the elector of Saxony and leader of Protestant Germany who, by reconciling his fellow Lutherans with the Roman Catholic Habsburg Holy Roman emperors, helped bring the initial belligerency of the Reformation in Germany to an end.
Frederic III, also known as Frederic the Wise, was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and Elisabeth of Bavaria. He was born in Torgau in 1463 and succeeded his father as Duke of Saxony and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486. In 1502, he founded the University of Wittenberg; Luther and Melanchthon both studied and later taught theology ...
the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony. 1533. Oil on panel. This painting was made following the Mechanised procedures used by various German workshops in the 16th century, including that of Lucas Cranach. Between 1532 and 1533 Cranach produced 120 similar portraits of Electors of Saxony, commissioned by John Frederick following his ascent to the ...
