2-660-946 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Andreas Hofer 1767-1810', 1934. Andreas Hofer (1767-1810), Tyrolean innkeeper and drover, who in 1809 became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the revolutionary Napoleonic invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subsequently captured and executed. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]