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n. (given name female from=Germanic), a feminine diminutive form of Albert, Latinate variant of Albertine.
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The Albertina is a museum in Vienna, Austria, containing the world's best collection of old master prints and drawings.
Albertina, a feminine adjectival form of Albert (given name), may also refer to:
- Königsberg Albertus University, the former University in East Prussia
- Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg before the year 1820
- Albertina, Minas Gerais, a town in Brazil
- Albertina, Western Cape, a town in South Africa's Western Cape province
- Albertina is also a nickname for the Royal Library of Belgium
- Bibliotheca Albertina, the Leipzig University Library
The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings. Apart from the graphics collection the museum has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressionist and early 20th-century art, some of which will be on permanent display. The museum also houses temporary exhibitions.
Usage examples of "albertina".
Fridolin and Albertina, left alone under the reddish glow of the hanging-lamp, continued the conversation they had begun before supper.
Fridolin and Albertina were glad to have escaped from a disappointingly commonplace masquerade prank, and soon sat like two lovers, among the other couples, in the buffet, eating oysters and drinking champagne.
Fridolin's profession summoned him to his patients at an early hour, while Albertina would not stay in bed longer because of her duties as housewife and mother.
No, it was longer than thatever since this evening's conversation with Albertina he was moving farther and farther away from his everyday existence into some strange and distant world.
At this very moment, while he was sitting snugly in the cafe, while Albertina was calmly sleeping, and the Councilor had passed beyond all human suffering, Marie B.
It was only now that he thought of Albertina, but with a feeling that she, too, would first have to be won.
As he wished not to wake Albertina, he took off his shoes and clothes before going into the bedroom, and very cautiously turned on the light on the little table beside his bed.
Tip-toeing to the door of the bedroom he found Albertina still sleeping soundly.
The maid had scarcely answered him when Albertina herself came to the phone to answer Fridolin's call.
They are all alike, he thought bitterly, and Albertina is like the rest of them if not the worst.
He mentioned especially the gossip about the doctors, about whom he always kept Albertina well informed.
Fridolin rose with a sigh of relief, suggesting to Albertina that she and the child ought to go for a walk on such a beautiful, sunny afternoon, and went to his consulting room.
Yes, to betray, to deceive, to lie, to play a part, before Marianne, before Albertina, before the good Doctor Roediger, before the whole world.
And the most delightful part was that at some future time, long after Albertina fancied herself secure in the peacefulness of marriage and offamily lifehe would confess to her, with a superior smile, all of his sins, in retribution for the bitter and shameful things she had committed against him in a dream.
He telephoned home not to expect him for supper, and hung up the receiver quickly so that Albertina wouldn't have a chance to come to the phone.