[1] Luh did his PhD with Gerd Heinrich (historian) [de] at the Freie Universität zu Berlin, where his dissertation was published in 1995 as Unheiliges Römisches Reich: der konfessionelle Gegensatz 1648 bis 1806.
[4] He argued that, rather than looking at the eighteenth century for evidence of a "military revolution" which prefigured modern war, historians should examine the meaning that armies and warfare actually had for those living at the time.
[5] Jürgen Luh is Wissenschaftler at the Stiftung Preußischer Schlösser und Gärten (Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, SPSG).
von Preußen sought to resolve long-held ideas about the Prussian king's "contradictory" nature as both a patron of the Enlightenment and a military conqueror.
Frederick saw his reputation as an author and a companion of Voltaire as simply an alternative way of achieving fame and immortality, alongside military success and the conquest of territory.