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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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

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

He says he wrote "Götz von Berlichingen" when he was a young inexperienced man of two-and-twenty.

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

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

Under the name of Götz von Berlichingen he became a member of the brotherhood, and, according to his own account, he contributed to the gaiety of the proceedings.

From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown