Works
Dahn's writings were extremely influential in forming the conception of the European history unfolding during the first millennium CE which dominated German-speaking countries during the late 19th and early 20th century. His multi-volume Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples, a chronology of the European Völkerwanderung (Migration Period) that first appeared in print in 1883, was so definitive that abbreviated versions were reprinted until the late 1970s. His works contributed to the foundation of National Socialism in Germany while his book Ein Kampf um Rom encouraged a "voelkisch avant-garde" who feared the supposed danger of ethnic mixing.
Although Dahn wrote in the style of German Romanticism, he was among the first historians to incorporate modern socioeconomic insights, at least on a qualitative level. Here is a list of Felix Dahn's most significant writings:
- 1861 - 1911 Die Könige der Germanen (Germanic Kings, 11 parts)
- 1865 Prokopius von Cäsarea. Ein Beitrag zur Historiographie der Völkerwanderung und des sinkenden Römertums (Procopius of Caesarea)
- 1875 König Roderich (King Roderick)
- 1876 Ein Kampf um Rom (A Struggle for Rome)
- 1877 Die Staatskunst der Frauen (Women's Statecraft)
- 1884 Die Kreuzfahrer (The Crusaders)
- 1883 Urgeschichte der germanischen und romanischen Völker (Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples, four parts)
- 1882 - 1901 Kleine Romane aus der Völkerwanderung (Short Novels of the Migrations, 13 parts)
- 1893 Julian der Abtrünnige (Julian the Apostate)
- 1902 Herzog Ernst von Schwaben (Duke Ernst of Swabia)
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