Berlichingen

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/ ˈbɛrlɪçɪŋən /

noun

1. Götz von (ɡœts fɔn), called the Iron Hand . 1480–1562, German warrior knight, who robbed merchants and kidnapped nobles for ransom

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Berlichingen

Donor Speck, son of German-born New Yorkers, read Gotz von Berlichingen at the age of 15, bought a complete set of Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Goetz von Berlichingen" and "Werther" made the young Goethe one of the foremost men in German literature.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

An advanced class in German read Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, and the first part of Faust, "three weeks of thorough study," she calls it, "as valuable to me as to them."

From Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

While thus engaged he wrote his first romantic-historical play, "Goetz von Berlichingen."

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson

Of these masterpieces, Goetz von Berlichingen was a dramatised romance of chivalry, which was the popular style at that time.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine