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Non fiction | Biography | History<br />
The story of a talented forger<br />
The entertaining story of a talented<br />
counterfeiter in the 19th century.<br />
He was a gifted counterfeiter and the<br />
greatest, most skilled and brazen forger of<br />
manuscripts and papyrus scrolls in the<br />
19th century - the Greek Konstantinos<br />
Simonides.<br />
In this delightfully written biography,<br />
Rüdiger Schaper narrates the true and<br />
adventurous story of the forger.<br />
The book can also be read as a discussion<br />
on the question of authenticity and<br />
forgery.<br />
It not only awakens sympathy for the<br />
author's eccentric hero but also conjures<br />
up the 19th century nostalgia for the<br />
world of antiquity and shows how modern<br />
Europe invented its ancient world.<br />
"Rüdiger Schaper suspensefully and<br />
intelligently tells a nearly forgotten story<br />
filled with cinematic features. In his<br />
captivating book, he succeeds in<br />
demystifying an epoch that many people<br />
ever since school days have been told not<br />
to doubt or to question.”<br />
Rüdiger Schaper was born in 1959<br />
and is head of the cultural affairs<br />
section of the daily Berliner<br />
Tagesspiegel, for which he has been<br />
working since 1999.<br />
Previous to that, he was the<br />
correspondent for cultural affairs at the<br />
daily Süddeutsche Zeitung for ten years.<br />
Rüdiger Schaper<br />
The Honest Forger<br />
Konstantinos Simonides<br />
and the invention of the ancient world<br />
Siedler · München, <strong>2011</strong><br />
220 pages<br />
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All rights available<br />
Konstantinos Simonides<br />
(1820-1867)
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