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Jenatsch, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1636; in a private collection
Jenatsch, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1636; in a private collection

Georg Jenatsch

Swiss political leader
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Born:
1596, Samaden, Grisons, Switz.
Died:
Jan. 24, 1639, Chur (aged 43)

Georg Jenatsch (born 1596, Samaden, Grisons, Switz.—died Jan. 24, 1639, Chur) was a Swiss political and military leader of the Grisons (now Graubünden, the most easterly of Swiss cantons) during the complex struggles of the Thirty Years’ War. The son of the Protestant vicar of Samaden, Jenatsch became vicar of Scharans in 1617. Ambition and thirst for action led him into politics. The Grisons were loosely attached to the Swiss Confederation and at that time controlled the Valtellina with its roads and passes, a region over which the Spaniards (from their duchy of Milan), the Austrian Habsburgs, France, and Venice ...(100 of 256 words)

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