Altenburg (Al`tenburg) , capital of Saxe-Altenburg, and 4 m. S. of Leipsic; its castle is the scene of the famous “Prinzenraub” (q.v.), related by Carlyle in his “Miscellanies.”
Population (circa 1900) given as 33,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Al`ten, Karl August * Althen