Gustavus
英 ['ɡustɑ:vəs]
美
- n. 古斯塔夫斯(男子名)
英英释意
- 1. king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632)
- 2. king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560)