Rudolf II, Kaisar Romawi Suci

Rudolf II (18 Juli 1552 – 20 Januari 1612) adalah Kaisar Romawi Suci (1576–1612), Raja Hungaria dan Kroasia (sebagai Rudolf I, 1572–1608), Raja Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) dan Adipati Utama Austria (1576–1608). Ia adalah anggota Wangsa Habsburg.

 Biografi 
jmpl|kiri|200px|Adipati Agung Rudolf

Rudolf lahir di Vienna pada 18 Juli 1552. Ia adalah putra sulung dan penerus dari Maximilian II, Kaisar Romawi Suci, Raja Bohemia, dan Raja Hungaria dan Kroasia; ibunya adalah Maria dari Spanyol, seorang putri dari Charles V dan Isabella dari Portugal.

 Referensi 

 Bolton, Henry Carrington (1904). The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II, 1576–1612, Milwaukee: Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co., 1904. From Internet Archive Inaccurate and misleading
 Evans, R. J. W. (1953). Rudolf II and his world: A study in intellectual history, 1576–1612. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2nd ed, 1984. Considered the fundamental re-evaluation of Rudolf.
 Rowse, A. L. (1977). Homosexuals in History: Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 0-02-605620-8
 Hotson, Howard (1999). "Rudolf II", in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler. Vol. 5. ISBN 0-684-80514-6
 Marshall, Peter (2006). The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague. ISBN 0-8027-1551-6. Also published as The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague (in the UK, ISBN 0-436-20521-1; in Canada, ISBN 0-7710-5690-7); and in paperback as The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague (2007) ISBN 978-1-84413-537-0. Biography, focusing on the many artists and scientists Rudolf patronized.
 Trevor-Roper, Hugh; Princes and Artists, Patronage and Ideology at Four Habsburg Courts 1517–1633, Thames & Hudson, London, 1976, ISBN 0-500-23232-6

 Pranala luar 
 Rudolf II, from Encyclopædia Britannica, latest edition online, full-article.
 Rudolf II and Prague , 1997 official exhibition.
 Prague during the reign of Rudolf II, karya Jacob Wisse, in Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
 Rudolf II, karya Edward Einhorn, tells the story of the latter part of Rudolf II's life.

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