Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein

Whereas these men had a seductive edge of danger, a touch of Achilles' divine rage, Albrecht von Wallenstein, commander of the Holy Roman Emperor's armies during the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century, was wholly, savagely terrifying.

Reviewing Magdeburg's rise from a frontier fortification to the Saxon capitol, the report traced recent problems back to November 1625 and the "Duke of Friedland"--an obvious reference to Albrecht von Wallenstein.

Schiller's epic masterpiece penetrates the psychology of Albrecht von Wallenstein, the general of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

s Camp, 1798), Die Piccolomini ( The Piccolominis, 1799), and Wallensteins Tod ( Wallenstein's Death, 1799), based on the fall of the German general Count Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583 - 1634).