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Albrecht
Albrecht Albrecht is above all the name of Dürer — the German Renaissance master who brought the exactness of northern observation to the voluptuous forms of the Italian Renaissance. Characters named Albrecht tend to have a quality of precise, almost ferocious attention to detail combined with aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness. The name suits artist-protagonist fiction, historical narratives of the Habsburg world, and anyone whose nobility is expressed through craft.
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Dietrich
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