Albert
Albert names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Albert PRINCE CONSORT, was born at Schloss Rosenau
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PRINCE CONSORT, was born at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Aug. 26, 1819, the younger son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, by his first marriage with Louisa, daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After a careful domestic education, the prince, along with his elder brother, studied at Brussels and Bonn (1836-1838). This prince the young Queen of Great Britain selected as her partner for life. They met first in 1836, and the marriage was celebrated in London on Feb. 10, 1840, when Prince Albert received the title of Royal Highness, was naturalized as a subject of Great Britain, and obtained the rank of field-marshal. The title of Consort of Her Most Gracious Majesty was formally conferred in 1842, and that of Prince Consort in 1857. Notwithstanding his high and favored position, he abstained from undue meddling with state affairs, and thus escaped the jealousy and detraction of parties. He devoted himself to the encouragement and promotion of science and art, appearing as the patron of many useful associations and public undertakings. The Exhibition of 1851 owed much to his strong interest. As regards Continental politics, his ruling idea was that Prussia should be supreme in Germany. He died of typhoid fever at Windsor Castle, Dec. 14, 1861.
Albert PRINCE OF MECKLEN- BURG, was called to the throne of Sweden
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PRINCE OF MECKLEN- BURG, was called to the throne of Sweden, 1364, by the nobility, who had deposed King Magnus. The Swedes being dissatisfied with Albert, who favored his German countrymen at their expense, offered the crown to Margaret, Queen of Denmark and Norway. After several years of war, Albert lost the decisive battle of Falköping, 1388, 1388, and was made a prisoner. Peace, however, was not reestablished in Sweden till 1395, when Albert consented to give up his claims to the crown. He then retired to Mecklenburg, where he died. ALBERT EDWARD NYANZA (Muta- Nzige, southern Luto Nzige), a lake of equatorial Africa, discovered by Stanley in 1876, and again visited by him in 1889. It occupies the southern end of a vast natural depression, of which the Albert Nyanza fills the northern extremity. It is 3,242 feet above sea-level; and beyond the depression in which it lies is a table land from 5,500 to 6,500 feet high. The water of the lake flows into the Albert Nyanza by the Semliki river.
Albert MARGRAVE OF BRAN- DENBURG, and first Duke of Prussia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARGRAVE OF BRAN- DENBURG, and first Duke of Prussia, was born in 1490. He was elected, in 1511, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, which held dominion over Prussia proper, that part of the former Kingdom of Prussia which borders on the Baltic Sea. He fought against Sigismund, King of Poland, for the defense of his order, which had been for ages at war with the Poles. Peace was made in 1525, at Cracow, in which Albert managed to have che Duchy of Prussia secured to himself and his descendants as a fief of the crown of Poland, thus laying aside the rights of the order. Albert, some time after, embraced the Protestant faith, and married a princess of Denmark. One of his descendants, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, threw off the allegiance of Poland, and his son, Frederick I., changed the title of duke into that of King of Prussia in 1701.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biographical entries still stand, but the map has moved out from under two of them. "Albert Edward Nyanza," which Collier's in 1921 credited to Stanley's 1876 sighting, is now simply Lake Edward, straddling the Uganda–Democratic Republic of the Congo border and lying inside Virunga and Queen Elizabeth national parks; Stanley is now described as the first European to report a lake local people had always known. The duchy that Albert of Brandenburg secured at Cracow in 1525 vanished in 1945: East Prussia was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union, and Königsberg, where Albert is buried in the cathedral, became Kaliningrad — the shell of the cathedral was rebuilt only in the 1990s. On the Prince Consort, later publication of his voluminous memoranda has undercut the claim that he "abstained from undue meddling with state affairs"; historians now treat him as an active shaper of policy, notably in softening the British note to Washington over the Trent affair weeks before his death in 1861.
Written for this edition, 2026.