The electors of Brandenburg were as follows: Frederick I. (the Frederick VI. mentioned above).(1415-1440) Frederick II (1440-14744 Albert Achilles (1470-1486) John Cicero. (1486-1499) Joachim I. Nestor (1499-1535) Joachim II. Hector (1535-1571) John George (1571-1598) Joachim Frederick (1598-1608) John Sigismund (1608 1619) George William (1619 1640) Frederick William, the Great Elector ..(1640-1688) Frederick III (1688-1713)after 1701, King Frederick I.
of Prussia The Hohenzollern kings of Prussia since Fred erick 1. have been as follows: Frederick William I (1713-1740) Frederick II. the Great (1740-1786) Frederick William II (1786-1797) Frederick William III (1797-1844)) Frederick William IV (18-10-1861) William I............ (1861-1888), after 1871, German Emperor Frederick III (1888) William II (1888—) The history of the Hohenzollern family from the fifteenth century is that of BRANDENBURG, PRUSSIA, and GERMANY. Consult: Stillfried Aleantara and Kugler. Die Hohenzollern und dos deutsche Vaterland (Munich, 1881), a well-or dered account, dedicated' to Emperor William I., and presumably having a semi-official standing; Waddington, L'aequisition de in eouronne royale de Prusse par les Hohenzollern (Paris, 1888). a
valuable study of Hohenzollern history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with many documents: Berner, Die Abstammung and iilteste Genealogic der Hohenzollern (Berlin. 1893) : Seidel. Hohenzollern-Jahrbuch, Forsehungen cur Gesehiehte der Hohenzollern in Brandenburg Preussen (Leipzig, 1897 et seq.) ; Tuttle, History of Prussia (Boston, 1884-96). one of the best products of American historical scholarship, cut short at 1757 by the death of the author.
HtiHNEL, he'nel, LyDWIG VON (1857—). An Austrian explorer, born at Pressburg and educated at the Naval Academy of Fiume. In 1887 he accompanied Count Teleki in the journey from Zanzibar, on which lakes Rudolph and Stephanie were discovered, and a large area, be fore unknown, carefully plotted on Hiihners maps. The expeditions proved the connection between the Abyssinian plateau and the Rand. Lieutenant Hanel described the results of his journey in his book. Zuni Rudolfsee owl Ste faniesee (1S92). In 1892-93 he explored with an American traveler, William Astor Chanler (q.v.), the country between the rivers Tana and Juba. Consult Chanler, Through Jungle and Desert (New York, 189(3).