LUDWIG II (1845-1886, Mad King of Bavaria who built Magnificent Castles & was a patron of Wagner, drowned in the Starnberg Lake)

Excellent clerk written Document Signed with a printed heading, in German with transcription and translation, appointing Dr Christian Bäumler as Professor of Pharmacology in the faculty of the University Erlangen, signed also by Lutz (Eduard Ritter von, 1810-1893, Minister of War, 1863-1866), with large papered seal with the King’s arms as ‘Rex Boioariae’, elaborate and attractive lithographed lettering filled out in pen, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, Munich, 15th April

The title in the seal recalls the Boii people of Roman times.
(Transcription)
Ludwig II. von Gottes Gnaden König von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein Herzog von Bayern, Franken und in Schwaben, &. &
[Signed] Ludwig
[Signed] Lutz
(Translation)
Ludwig II by the Grace of God King of Bavaria, Count Palatine by Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia, &c. &c.
[Signed] Ludwig
[Signed] Lutz

Item Date:  1874

Stock No:  41962      £1750

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