Alexander Demandt
Author of Die Kelten
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History That Never Happened: A Treatise on the Question, What Would Have Happened If...? (1984) 27 copies
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- Demandt, Alexander
- Birthdate
- 1937-06-06
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Germany
- Country (for map)
- Germany
- Occupations
- historian
- Short biography
- Professor of Ancient history at the Free University of Berlin from 1976 until 2005.
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One of Demandt's minor but admirable concerns is countering a tendency to (mis)use an image of Celtic Tribes for propaganda or various other political gains -- both in the ancient world and in more recent centuries. He’s very sober about Arthuriana, 20thC Druids and books about Mystical Celtic Wisdom.
More maps would have been welcome. I have no idea where most of the German or French rivers and towns that Demandt references are, and that makes following the text harder than it ought to be.… (more)