- GESSLER, ALBRECHT
- a governor of the forest cantons of Switzerland, who figures in Swiss legend as an oppressor who was shot as related in the tradition of Tell.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
GESSLER, ALBRECHT
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