Felix Dahn

Felix Dahn (1834–1912) was a German jurist, historian, and writer. Born in Hamburg, he grew up in Munich. After completing his habilitation, he taught as a professor at the universities of Munich, Würzburg, Königsberg, and Breslau. Alongside scholarly works, Dahn wrote numerous historical novels, stories, and poems, often focusing on the Germanic peoples, their gods, late antiquity, and the Migration Period. His best-known work is the historical novel *A Struggle for Rome* (*Ein Kampf um Rom*, 1876).