Andreas Kalckhoff

Andreas Kalckhoff, born in Saaz (Bohemia) in 1944, grew up in Munich and now lives in Stuttgart. After studying history and earning his doctorate in Munich, he worked as an editor of a history journal and went to the University of Stuttgart as a research assistant in 1978. There he conducted research on historical anthropology. Since 1980 he has worked as a freelance journalist and publicist. He is mainly interested in the German Middle Ages, but also in British and American history. His dissertation on the emergence of nationalism was published under the title "Nacio Scottorum. Schottischer Regionalismus im Spätmittelalterr" (Nacio Scottorum. Scottish Regionalism in the Late Middle Ages). Other book publications: "Richard III and the historical Games of Thrones", "Karl der Große" (Charlemagne), "Kampf um Liebe: Liudolf und Otto der Große: Politische Kultur im Frühmittelalter" (Battle for Love: Liudolf and Otto the Great: Political Culture in the Early Middle Ages), "Was geschah in Saaz und Postelberg im Juni 1945?: Geheime Dokumente und Zeitzeugenberichte enthüllen das Unfassbare" (What Happened in Saaz and Postelberg in June 1945? Secret documents and eyewitness accounts reveal the inconceivable". http://www.kalckhoff.de, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Kalckhoff