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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_18820" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_18820" /> == | ||
<p> son of Casimir, margrave of Culmbach, was born [[March]] 28, 1522. [[He]] entered into the confederacy formed by Maurice, elector of Saxony, and other princes, against the emperor [[Charles]] V, and committed. many excesses in the war, burning towns and levying heavy contributions wherever he marched. [[Subsequently]] a league headed by [[Maurice]] himself was formed against him, and in 1553 a great battle was fought at Sivershausen, in which Maurice was slain and [[Albrecht]] wounded. He was afterwards put under theban of the empire, and deprived of his possession. While suffering exile he composed the hymn Was mems Gott will, gescheh' allzeit (Engl. transl. in the [[Monthly]] [[Religious]] [[Magazine]] [1864], 31, page 80, "Whate'er [[God]] will, let that be done"), and died as a penitent and believing Christian, [[January]] 8, 1557, at Pforzheim, in the house of his brother-in-law, the margrave Charles II, of Baden. [[See]] Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 1:339 sq. (B.P.) </p> | <p> son of Casimir, margrave of Culmbach, was born [[March]] 28, 1522. [[He]] entered into the confederacy formed by Maurice, elector of Saxony, and other princes, against the emperor [[Charles]] V, and committed. many excesses in the war, burning towns and levying heavy contributions wherever he marched. [[Subsequently]] a league headed by [[Maurice]] himself was formed against him, and in 1553 a great battle was fought at Sivershausen, in which Maurice was slain and [[Albrecht]] wounded. He was afterwards put under theban of the empire, and deprived of his possession. While suffering exile he composed the hymn Was mems Gott will, gescheh' allzeit (Engl. transl. in the [[Monthly]] [[Religious]] [[Magazine]] [1864], 31, page 80, "Whate'er [[God]] will, let that be done"), and died as a penitent and believing Christian, [[January]] 8, 1557, at Pforzheim, in the house of his brother-in-law, the margrave Charles II, of Baden. [[See]] Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 1:339 sq. (B.P.) </p> | ||
