Berlichingen

British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

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

The best known is G�tz von Berlichingen; his memoirs were first published in 1731.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

Children may find time to read "Ivanhoe," "The Crusades," "Roland," "Don Quixote," "The Golden Legend," "Macbeth," "Goetz von Berlichingen," etc.

From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)

In 1772 he returned to Frankfort "Goetz von Berlichingen" and practiced law.

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

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 Beach, Seth Curtis