Albrecht

Albrecht ("noble", "bright") is a given name or surname of German origin and may refer to:

First name

Albert of Mainz

Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg (German: Albrecht von Brandenburg; 28 June 1490 – 24 September 1545) was Elector and Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 to 1545.

Biography

Born in Kölln, Albert was the younger son of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg and Margaret of Thuringia.

After their father's death, Albert and his older brother Joachim I Nestor became margraves of Brandenburg in 1499, but only his older brother held the title of an elector of Brandenburg. Having studied at the university of Frankfurt (Oder), Albert entered the ecclesiastical profession, and in 1513 became archbishop of Magdeburg at the age of 23 and administrator of the Diocese of Halberstadt.

In 1514 he obtained the Electorate of Mainz, and in 1518 was made a cardinal at the age of 28. To pay for the pallium of the see of Mainz and to discharge the other expenses of his elevation, Albert had borrowed 21,000 ducats from Jakob Fugger, [Fugger article says 48,000 ducats] and had obtained permission from Pope Leo X to conduct the sale of indulgences in his diocese to obtain funds to repay this loan, as long as half of the collection was forwarded to the Papacy. An agent of the Fuggers subsequently traveled in the Cardinal's retinue in charge of the cashbox. He procured the services of John Tetzel to sell the indulgences.

10656 Albrecht

10656 Albrecht, also designated 2213 T-1, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Dutch astronomers Cornelis and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the U.S. Palomar Observatory, California, on 25 March 1971.

The dark C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.9–3.5 AU once every 5 years and 8 months (2,071 days). Its orbit is tilted by 9 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.09. It has a rotation period of 14.5 hours and an albedo of 0.06, based on assumptions made by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL).

The unusual designation 2213 T–1 stands for a survey made in the search for Jupiter trojans beyond the main-belt. The team of astronomers adopted the same procedure as previously used in their fruitful and much larger Palomar–Leiden survey collaboration of the 1960s, which was named after the involved observatories at Palomar and Leiden. In both surveys, Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory, where astrometry was carried out. The trio of astronomers are credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries.