... of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany. — Count Tilly takes the 5 Friedrich Schiller Command of the Imper... ...lenstein. — Battle of Lutzen. — Death of Gustavus Adolphus. — Situation of Germany after the Battle of Lutzen. Book IV. Closer Alliance between France... ...elieu and Louis XIII. — Swedish Victory at Jankowitz. — French defeated at Freyburg. — Battle of Nordlingen gained by Turenne and Conde. — Wrangel tak... ... Termination of the Thirty Years’ War. History of the Thirty Years’ War in Germany Book I F ROM THE BEGINNING of the religious wars in Germany, to the... ...of a religious party which it was his aim and en- deavour to extirpate. In Germany, the schisms in the church produced also a lasting political schism... ...nd for half a century smothered the glimmer- ing sparks of civilization in Germany, and threw back the improving manners of the country into their pri...

...E Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was born at Marbach, Wurtemberg, Germany, November 10, 1759. His father had served both as surgeon and soldi... ...trude? Iberg’s child, And clever as her father. Not a man, That wends from Germany, by Meinrad’s Cell,* To Italy, but praises far and wide Your house’... ... went, A mighty host; and to the south moved on. Cutting their way through Germany by the sword, Until they gained these pine-clad hills of ours; 52 ... ...d Thurgau the work’s begun; The noble Berne lifts her commanding head, And Freyburg is a stronghold of the free; The stirring Zurich calls her guilds ...

...h as to the number and value, of perhaps a hundred to one. We take in, not Germany alone, but France and Italy; not the Schlegels and Schellings, but ... ...r years. Their effects over Europe at large were not less striking than in Germany. ‘It would be difficult,’ observes a writer on this subject, ‘to na... ...y ware; and though the epidemic, after a long course of years, subsided in Germany, it reappeared with various modi- fications in other countries, and... ... wished for, both in its own country and in every other. The Literature of Germany had as yet but partially awakened from its long torpor: deep learni... ...hey might seem, was in an equally expectant condition. Every- where, as in Germany, there was polish and languor, external 10 Autobiography glitter a... ...on with which I afterwards examined: the cathedral at Cologne, and that at Freyburg, and more and more felt the value of these buildings, I could even...