Biography of "Mad King Ludwig" (1845-1886) , eccentric king of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886 and an admirer and patron of the composer Richard Wagner. He brought his territories into the newly founded German Empire (1871) but concerned himself only intermittently with affairs of state, preferring a life of increasingly morbid seclusion and developing a mania for extravagant building projects. ; 12mo; 266 pp

Biography Ludwig II Bavaria Mad Ludwig Biography 19th Century