Volta
Person1594 – 1632

Gustavus Adolphus

Also called: Gustav II Adolf

King of Sweden (r. 1611–1632) who entered the Thirty Years’ War at the head of the Protestant side and fell at the Battle of Lützen

Show on the map

Where they went

Open the full map

OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors

1 related event

  1. 1
    1618 – 1648Thirty Years’ Warcommander

    The last great war of religion, fought mainly in the Holy Roman Empire from the 1618 revolt of Bohemian Protestants until 1648; as Denmark, Sweden and France joined in, it became a struggle for European supremacy.

Themes this person appears in

  • Reformation and Absolutism1517 – 1796

    From Luther’s Ninety-five Theses to Catherine the Great — the wars of religion of a divided Christendom ended at Westphalia, and absolute monarchs armed with divine right, standing armies, bureaucracies and mercantilism, followed by the enlightened despots of eastern Europe, contended for the balance of power among sovereign states