Berlichingen, Goetz von, surnamed “The Iron Hand,” a brave but turbulent noble of Germany, of the 15th and 16th centuries, the story of whose life was dramatised by Goethe, “to save,” as he said, “the memory of a brave man from darkness,” and which was translated from the German by Sir Walter Scott.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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