• Landgraf

    Full definition of landgraf

    Noun

    landgraf

    (plural landgrafs)
    1. Alternative form of en
      • 1847, Washington M’Cartney, The Origin and Progress of the United States, Germany had its herzogs and landgrafs, each of whom had his territories, where he ruled, “monarch of all he surveyed.”
      • 1868, w Chapter E´SCHWEGÉ, The only building of note is the castle, which was long the residence of the landgrafs of Hessen-Rotenberg.
      • 1989, Jole Shackelford, Paracelsianism in Denmark and Norway in the 16th and 17th Centuries, The landgrafs of Hessen-Kassel were sympathetic to Calvinism, which created an intellectual atmosphere that not only tolerated Paracelsianism, not unlike that of Hemmingsen’s Copenhagen, but fostered religio Paracelsica as well.
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