At the end of the 1980s, John Röhl, who was then a scholarship holder at the Historical College in Munich, gave a lecture on the topic of “Caesar Madness.” Röhl recalled the ancient historian Ludwig Quidde, who in 1894 wrote himself out of the historical guild for all time (and into a four-month imprisonment) with a study on the Roman Emperor Caligula that was only 17 pages long. Because all readers recognized in the crazy ancient emperor the outlines of the young monarch Wilhelm II who ruled Germany.
On the death of John Röhl – Culture
