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2 unusual facts about Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp


1614 Low German Bible

The coat of arms of Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein also appears in the 1614 Bible on the back cover.

This marriage allied Saxony not only to a royal house of Scandinavia, but also to the north state of Schleswig-Holstein which was ruled by Anna’s uncle, Adolf (reign 1544-1586).


Adolf Fonahn

Adolf Mauritz Fonahn (born June 15, 1873 in Hedrum, died 15 August 1940 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian physician, medical historian and orientalist.

Adolf Horion

Adolf Horion (12 July 1888, Hochneukirch - 28 May 1977, Überlingen) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Adolf II of Holstein

In 1159, Adolf accompanied the Emperor Frederick I into Italy and in 1164 he aided Henry the Lion against the Obotrites, dying in the Battle of Verchen.

Adolf Köberle

Adolf Köberle (July 3, 1898 in Bad Berneck, Upper Franconia, Germany – March 22, 1990 in Munich) was a German theologian.

Adolf Paul Johannes Althaus

Adolf Paul Johannes Althaus (November 29, 1861 – April 9, 1925) was a German Lutheran theologian, born at Fallersleben (17

Adolf Schwarz

Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Galszecs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austria-Hungarian chess master.

Adolf Spiess

Around this time, on a visit to his family in Sprendlingen, one evening a friendly magistrate informed his father that if Adolf was found in the house on the following morning he would be subject to arrest.

Adolf Taimi

Adolf Taimi (1881–1955) was a Finnish Communist leader, member of the red government 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, after which he fled to the Russian SFSR.

Adolf von Brauchitsch

Adolf von Brauchitsch died in Chemnitz, Germany on the 21 January 1935 at age 58 and was given a military funeral.

Adolf Wissel

Adolf Wissel (19 April 1894 – 17 November 1973) was a German painter.

Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

Duke Adolf is a character in Stefan Heym's book 1981 Ahasver (published in English as The Wandering Jew).

Adolf, King of Germany

On 8 May 1858, Duke Adolf of Nassau established a Military and Civil Order of Merit for the Duchy.

Ataúlfo

Ataúlfo is one form of the Spanish name equivalent to Adolf (the other being Adolfo).

August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius

Platen's ornithologische Sammlungen aus Amboina, 1882 (with Adolf Nehrkorn) - Dr. Platen's ornithological collection from Amboina.

Augusta of Denmark

When in 1610 John Adolf fired the Lutheran vicar Jacob Fabricius the Elder, general provost for Holstein and Schleswig ducal share, and replaced him with a Calvinist, Philipp Caesar, as the official vicar of the ducal court in 1614, Augusta refused to attend service and went by foot to the Lutheran church in Slesvig.

Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Augustus was born on 13 July 1783 at Schloss Rastede near Oldenburg, to the then Prince Peter Frederick Louis of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, a daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

Battle of Göllheim

When the Diet met near Frankfurt the following year, they were discouraged to appoint Albert, thus they elected a cousin of one of the Electors, Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

Bernhard Ernst von Bülow

He was the son of Adolf von Bülow, a Danish official, and was born at Cismar in Holstein.

Bill Fay

A cover version of Fay's "Pictures of Adolf Again", by producer and musician Jim O'Rourke and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, can be heard in the film from Kōji Wakamatsu, United Red Army.

Butyrka prison

Werner Haase, one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians, died in captivity in 1945.

Cadet branch

Also, marriage to cadet males of the Houses of Oldenburg (Holstein-Gottorp), Polignac, and Bourbon-Parma brought those dynasties patrilineally to the thrones of Russia, Monaco, and Luxembourg, respectively.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen

Duchess Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden

Augusta Maria of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

In 1678 the duke took part in the founding of the Hamburg Oper am Gänsemarkt.

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Ever since the conclusion of the Great Northern War, Danish statesmen had been occupied in harvesting its fruits, namely, the Gottorp portions of Schleswig definitely annexed to Denmark in 1721 by the Treaty of Nystad, and endeavouring to bring about a definitive general understanding with the House of Gottorp as to their remaining possessions in Holstein.

DJ Koze

He was part of German hip-hop act Fischmob in the 1990s, while also recording under the name Adolf Noise.

Erman

Paul Erman (1764-1851), German Physicist, Father of Georg Adolf Erman

Feuerland

In 1837 August Borsig established a factory at Chausseestraße 1–3, to be followed in 1839 by Friedrich Adolf Pflug at Chausseestraße 7–9.

Freudenberg

Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1906–1984), German historian and an early opponent of Adolf Hitler

Fröhlich

Dunkelfelder, grape variety also known as "Farbtraube Froelich" or "Froelich V 4-4" after the grape breeder Gustav Adolf Froelich (1847–1912)

Globe of Gottorf

The original globe was built between 1654 to 1664 in Gottorf on request of Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

Gustav, Prince of Vasa

Gustav, Prince Vasa (9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August/5 August 1877 at Pillnitz), born Crown Prince of Sweden and later called Gustaf Gustafsson von Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Vasa) was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica.

Hans and Sophie Scholl

Hans and Sophie Scholl, often referred to in German as die Geschwister Scholl (literally: the Scholl siblings), were a brother and sister who were members of the White Rose, a student group in Munich that was active in the non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany, especially in distributing flyers against the war and the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

Holstein

Gottorp ducal share in Holstein and Schleswig, partitioned from ducal Holstein in 1544, acquired half of Haderslev share in 1580 (thus thereafter simply called ducal share), merged into the royal share in 1773 with its ruler receiving in return the prior Danish-held County of Oldenburg.

John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

# Dorothea Auguste (12 May 1602 – 13 March 1682), married in 1633 to Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.

John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop

and Osterholz with all their estates had turned into such foundations (German: das Stift, more particular: Damenstift, literally Ladies' foundation), while the monastery of Zeven was in the process of becoming one, with – among a majority of Catholic nuns – a number of nuns of Lutheran denomination, usually called conventuals.

Laurids Lindenov

In the 1660s he served at the Court of Christian V, with the title of hoffjunker, and as chamberlain for Duchess Frederica Amalia of Holstein-Gottorp.

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf was born in Plaue, Austria, on 16 February 1837 and educated in Chemnitz and Dresden in neighbouring Germany at various technical schools before taking up technical work for the Leipzig-Dresden Railway.

Memory conformity

Reportedly, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's Chief of Staff, flew to Scotland to present The Duke of Hamilton with a peace proposal between Germany and Britain.

Michaela Dornonville de la Cour

Prior to joining Army of Lovers, de la Cour qualified as a teacher (and has taught at the Adolf-Fredrik music school in Stockholm) and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles.

Order of St. Anne

Order of St. Anna, Russian Imperial order of chivalry established by Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp on 14 February 1735

Paul Colomiès

He was on the point of going to Germany to become librarian to Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp when illness overtook him.

Queen Louise of Sweden

Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720-1782), daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover; wife of Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden

Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington

In 1701, she married Johann Adolf, Baron von Kielmansegg (1668–1717), Deputy Master of the Horse to George Louis and they had three sons and two daughters, the eldest of whom, Charlotte (1703–1782), married Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe.

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (born: 5 December 1630 in Gottorp; died: 12 December 1680 in Coswig) was a daughter van Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony.

Van Aerde

Rogier van Aerde, pseudonym of Adolf Josef Hubert Frans van Rijen

Waldemar Kmentt

He studied at the Vienna Music Academy first the piano, and later voice with Adolf Vogel, Elisabeth Radó and Hans Duhan.


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