See also:

• JULIUS

JULIUS SOPHUS See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

FELIX See also:

• JULIUS SOPHUS FELIX DAHN (1834— )

DAHN (1834— )  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German historian, jurist and poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 9th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1834 in See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg, where his See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Friedrich See also:

• DAHN, JULIUS SOPHUS FELIX (1834— )

Dahn (1811—1889), was a leading actor at the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother, See also:

• CONSTANCE
• CONSTANCE (Ger. Konstanz or Costnitz)
• CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF
• CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the " Swabian Sea ")

Constance Dahn, nee Le See also:

• GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)
• GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852)
• GAY, WALTER (1856– )

Gay, was a noted actress . In 1834 the See also:

• FAMILY

family moved to See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich; where the parents took leading roles in the classical German See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama, until they retired from the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage: the mother in 1865 and the father in 1878 . See also:

• FELIX
• FELIX, ANTONIUS
• FELIX, LIA (1830– )

Felix Dahn studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and' See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy in Munich and See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin from 1849 to 18J3 . His first See also:

• WORKS

works were in See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence, Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Wirkung der Klagverjahrwng bei Obligationen (Munich, 1855), and Studien zur Geschichte der germanischen Gottesurteile (Munich, 1857) . In 1857 he, became docent in German law at Munich university, and in x862 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor-extraordinary, but in 1863 was called to Wiirzburg to a full professorship . In 1872 he removed to the university of See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg, and in 1888 settled at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau, becoming See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of the university in 1895 . Meanwhile in addition to many legal works of high See also:

• STANDING

standing, he had begun the publication of that See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of histories and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical romances which has made his name a See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household word in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . The See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• HISTORY

history of the German migrations, Die Konige der Germanen, Halide i.-vi . (Munich and Wiirzburg, 1861—1870), Bande vii:-xi . (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1894-1908), was a masterly study in constitutional •history as well as a See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• WORK

work of high merit, which carries the narrative down to the See also:

• DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of the Carolingian See also:

• EMPIRE

empire . In his Urgeschichte der germanischen and romanischen Volker (Berlin, 1881—189o), Dahn went a step farther back still, but here as in his Geschichte der deutschen Urzeit (See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha, 1883—1888), a See also:

• WEALTH

wealth of picturesque detail has been worked over and resolved into history with such imaginative insight and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical skill as to make real and See also:

• PRESENT

present the indistinct beginnings of German society .

Together with these larger works Dahn wrote many monographs and studies upon See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive German society . Many of his essays were collected in a series of six volumes entitled Bausteine (Berlin, 1879—1884) . Not less important than his histories are the historical romances, the best-known of which, Ein Kampf um Rom, in four volumes (Leipzig, 1876), which has gone through many later See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, was also the first of .the series: Others are Odhins Trost (Leipzig, 188o); Die Kreuzfahrer (Leipzig, 1884); Odhins Rache (Leipzig, 1891); See also:

• JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

Julian der Abtriinnige (Leipzig, 1894), and one of the most popular, Bis zum Tode getreu (Leipzig, 1887) . The See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list is too long to be given in full, yet almost all are well-known . Parallel with this great See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of learned and imaginative works, Dahn published some twenty small volumes of See also:

• POETRY

poetry . The most notable of these are the epics of the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early German See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . His wife Therese, nee Freiin von Droste-Hiilshoff, was See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint-author with him of Walhall, Germanische Goiter and Heldensagen (Leipzig, 1898) . A collected edition of his works of fiction, both in See also:

• PROSE

prose and See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, has reached twenty-one volumes (Leipzig, 1898), and a new edition was published in 1901 . Dahn also published four volumes of See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs, Erinnerungen (Leipzig, 1890-1895) .