Note 1 — Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (continued 13)
A. J. W. (Alexander James William) Morrison translation
The post, managed by the princes of Thurn and Taxis, in different parts of Germany. An ancestor of this house first directed the post system in Tyrol, in 1450, and Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn received, in 1744, the office of Imperial Postmaster-General, as a fief of the empire.—Trans.