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‖ Tugendbund, n. Now Hist.|ˈtuːgəntbʊnt|
[Ger., = ‘league of virtue’, f. Tugend virtue + Bund league, alliance.]
A secret political organization founded in Königsberg in 1808 to promote Prussian nationalism and anti-Napoleonic feeling within Germany. (The society was officially disbanded in 1809.)
1828W. Napier Hist. War in Penins. I. iii. iii. 316 Secret societies under the name of Tugenbunde [sic], Gymnasiasts, and other denominations. 1849Mrs. G. Horrocks tr. Menzel's Hist. Germany III. cclvi. 265 Stein..was the founder of a secret society, the Tugendbund, by which a general insurrection against Napoleon was silently prepared throughout Germany. 1906Cambr. Mod. Hist. IX. xi. 328 The formation at Königsberg of the Moral and Scientific Union, popularly known as the Tugendbund (June, 1808). 1959Chambers's Encycl. XII. 397/2 In France the Philadelphians met to plot against Bonaparte. In Prussia the prime minister, Stein, formed the Tugendbund, or League of Virtue, towards the end of 1807 with the same purpose. 1984C. Sutherland Princess of Siberia iii. 55 The early nineteenth century was the era of patriotic associations everywhere. There was the Tugendbund in Germany, dedicated to the revival of Prussia; the Carbonari in Italy. |