Biography
Alexander Wolfheze received his MA in Semitic Languages and Cultures in 2004 and his cum laude PhD in the Humanities in 2011, both from Leiden University, the Netherlands. With extensive research experience in the fields of Assyriology and cultural anthropology, he has authored several publications in the field of Near Eastern cultural history. His specializations are pre-modern epistemology and Traditionalist philosophy, which this book applies to the cultural history of the Modern Age – it is the first in a series of publications thematically related to the Great War, written in the framework of a thematic research project entitled The Greatest War.