Olmütz
Britishnoun
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Beethoven conceived of the “Missa” for a specific liturgical purpose: to celebrate the installation of his friend, pupil and patron Archduke Rudolph as archbishop of Olmütz in Moravia in 1820.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2010
At the Bohemian court our poet renewed a very amicable acquaintance with two accomplished prelates, Ernest, Archbishop of Pardowitz, and John Oczkow, Bishop of Olmütz.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
At any rate we harbored no resentment for Olmütz during the Crimean War.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
The convention of Olmütz was the most complete humiliation to which any European State has ever been subjected.
From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam
The instability and political weakness which the Prussian Government showed in 1848, culminating in the disgrace of Olmütz in 1850, had deeply shaken the political and national importance of Prussia.
From Germany and the Next War by Friedrich von Bernhardi
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