person
Heinrich Matthias von Thurn
Thurn
also: Graf von Turn, Count von Turn, Turn
Bohemian count (1567-1640) who led the Protestant estates and the 1618 Defenestration of Prague, the spark of the Thirty Years' War.
Reading notes
- Early Poems §78 Count von Turn
Heinrich Matthias von Thurn (1567-1640), leader of the Bohemian Protestant estates and chief instigator of the Defenestration.