Educated at the University of Munich and the University of Berlin, where he obtained his Doctor of Laws degree, Dahn became a lecturer in law in Munich in 1857. He moved to Wurzburg in 1863 to become an associate professor, then on to Koningsberg in 1872 for a full professorship. While continuing his work in law, he became a respected historian, publishing numerous volumes of European and German history, in addition to much historical fiction. In 1888, he moved to Breslau and subsequently became rector of the university in 1895, where he remained until his retirement in 1910. Dahn was both anti-Polish and an anti-semite and a leader of a far-right organization, the Alldeutscher Verband. His other works include Harald and Theano (1855), Gedichte (1857), Procopius of Caesara (1865), The Kings of the German People (1861-1911, 11 Vols.), King Roderick (1876), A Struggle for Rome (1876), Women's Statecraft (1877), The Crusaders (1884), Short Novels of the Migrations (1882-1901, 13 Vols.), Julian the Apostate (1893), Attila (1895) and Duke Ernst of Swabia (1902). |
