Rudolf Graf Stillfried-Alcántara as chief master of ceremonies (study by Adolph von Menzel for the painting “Coronation of Wilhelm I in Königsberg”, 1863). Copper Engraving Cabinet, State Museums in Berlin (CC BY-SA)
To this day, court historiography is assumed to lack objectivity. But the example of the Berlin court official Rudolf Graf von Stillfried-Alcántara shows that professional and innovative historians worked at the courts in the 19th century.
The world in which Rudolf Baron von Stillfried-Rattonitz – from 1861 Count von Stillfried-Alcántara
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