pueckler

Updated: June 6, 2025

Yet with all his mock-heroic notoriety, the toller Pueckler was by no means destitute of those practical qualities which tempered the Teutonic Romanticism, even in its earliest and most extravagant developments.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

A French colonel of Hussars, so the story goes, rode out of the enemy's lines, and challenged any officer in the opposing army to single combat. Pueckler accepted the challenge, and the duel was fought on horseback presumably with sabres between the ranks of the two armies, the soldiers on either side applauding their chosen champion.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

As these Letters were not written until the prince had passed his fortieth year, it will be necessary, before considering them in detail, to give a brief sketch of his previous career. Hermann Ludwig was the only son of Graf von Pueckler of Schloss Branitz, and of his wife, Clementine, born a Graefin von Gallenberg, and heiress to the vast estate of Muskau in Silesia.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century