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Otto von Pack

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1480?
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Feb. 8, 1537, Brussels
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Otto von Pack (born 1480?—died Feb. 8, 1537, Brussels) was a German politician whose intrigues and forgeries almost caused a general war between Germany’s Catholic and Protestant princes in 1528. Pack, a Saxon nobleman, studied law at the University of Leipzig, after which he entered the service of George, duke of Saxony. By 1519 most important governmental matters in Saxony were entrusted to him, and he represented his ruler at the Reichstag (imperial Diet) from 1522 to 1526. His perpetual lack of funds, however, soon led him into a number of fraudulent schemes. The most serious of these became known ...(100 of 212 words)

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