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JULIUS SOPHUS FELIX DAHN (1834— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 734 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIUS SOPHUS See also:FELIX See also:DAHN (1834— )  , See also:German historian, jurist and poet, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:February 1834 in See also:Hamburg, where his See also:father, See also:Friedrich See also:Dahn (1811—1889), was a leading actor at the See also:city See also:theatre . His See also:mother, See also:Constance Dahn, nee Le See also:Gay, was a noted actress . In 1834 the See also:family moved to See also:Munich; where the parents took leading roles in the classical German See also:drama, until they retired from the See also:stage: the mother in 1865 and the father in 1878 . See also:Felix Dahn studied See also:law and' See also:philosophy in Munich and See also:Berlin from 1849 to 18J3 . His first See also:works were in See also:jurisprudence, Uber See also: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-extraordinary, but in 1863 was called to Wiirzburg to a full professorship . In 1872 he removed to the university of See also:Konigsberg, and in 1888 settled at See also:Breslau, becoming See also:rector of the university in 1895 . Meanwhile in addition to many legal works of high See also:standing, he had begun the publication of that See also:long See also:series of histories and See also:historical romances which has made his name a See also:household word in See also:Germany . The See also:great See also:history of the German migrations, Die Konige der Germanen, Halide i.-vi . (Munich and Wiirzburg, 1861—1870), Bande vii:-xi . (See also:Leipzig, 1894-1908), was a masterly study in constitutional •history as well as a See also:literary See also:work of high merit, which carries the narrative down to the See also:dissolution of the Carolingian See also: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, 1883—1888), a See also:wealth of picturesque detail has been worked over and resolved into history with such imaginative insight and See also:critical skill as to make real and See also:present the indistinct beginnings of German society .

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

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, was also the first of .the series: Others are Odhins Trost (Leipzig, 188o); Die Kreuzfahrer (Leipzig, 1884); Odhins Rache (Leipzig, 1891); See also:Julian der Abtriinnige (Leipzig, 1894), and one of the most popular, Bis zum Tode getreu (Leipzig, 1887) . The See also:list is too long to be given in full, yet almost all are well-known . Parallel with this great See also:production of learned and imaginative works, Dahn published some twenty small volumes of See also:poetry . The most notable of these are the epics of the See also:early German See also:period . His wife Therese, nee Freiin von Droste-Hiilshoff, was See also: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 and See also: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, Erinnerungen (Leipzig, 1890-1895) .

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