Maurice was a friend to learning, and devoted some of the secularized church property to the advancement of education. Very different estimates have been formed of his character. He has been represented as the saviour of German Protestantism on the one hand, and on the other as a traitor to his faith and country. In all probability he was neither the one nor the other, but a man of great ambition who, indifferent to religious considerations, made good use of the exigencies of the time. He was generous and enlightened, a good soldier and a clever diplomatist. He left an only daughter Anna (d. 1577), who became the second wife of William the Silent, prince of Orange. The elector's _Politische Korrespondenz_ has been edited by E. Brandenburg (Leipzig, 1900-1904); and a sketch of him is given by Roger Ascham in _A Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany_ (London, 1864-1865). See also F. A. von Langenn, _Moritz Herzog und Churfürst zu Sachsen_ (Leipzig, 1841); G. Voigt, _Moritz von Sachsen_ (Leipzig, 1876); E. Brandenburg, _Moritz von Sachsen_ (Leipzig, 1898); S. Issleib, _Moritz von Sachsen als protestantischer Fürst_ (Hamburg, 1898); J. Witter, _Die Beziehung und der Verkehr des Kurfürsten Moritz mit König Ferdinand_ (Jena, 1886); L. von Ranke, _Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation_, Bde. IV. and V. (Leipzig, 1882); and W. Maurenbrecher in the _Allgemeine deutsche Biographie_, Bd. XXII. (Leipzig, 1885). For bibliography see Maurenbrecher; and _The Cambridge Modern History_, vol. ii. (Cambridge, 1903).