05-11-2010, 10:16 AM
Quote: the fact that his German Policy (1972) remains essential reading simply proves this point. He will surely be sadly missed.
Phil Freeman and I first met him at the 1983 Limeskongress in Aalen and he was a nice, quiet, unassuming chap and unfailingly polite and helpful to mere postgraduates as we then were. I was of course in awe of him (and all the other 'greats' - boy, how time brings on the cynicism!) and German Policy (both in terms of content and approach) was an important book for a Germanophile like me too (and still is - I love his sound rogering of the notion of Augsburg-Oberhausen as a legionary base). Nice bloke, sound scholar: five stars.
Mike Bishop
