Michael Arnheim - Why Rome Fell

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Dr Michael Arnheim (commonly known as “Doctor Mike”) is a practicing London Barrister, Sometime Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and author of 23 published books to date, this being the twenty-third.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a German father and South African mother, he attended the prestigious King Edward VII School. As a 14-year-old schoolboy he was picked to join the “Quiz Kids” team of five capped and gowned teenagers appearing every Friday evening on South Africa’s Springbok Radio, of which he became a stalwart member, “retiring” at the age of eighteen.

He entered Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand at the age of 16, taking a first-class B.A. in History and Classics at the age of 19, first-class Honours in Classics at 20 and an M.A. with distinction at the age of 21.

Michael Arnheim then went up to St. John’s College, Cambridge, on a National Scholarship (later converted to a St. John’s College scholarship, supplemented by a Strathcona Travel Exhibition). He was awarded a Cambridge Ph.D. in 1969 in record time, and in 1972, his doctoral dissertation was published by the Oxford University Press under the title of The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire . In the meantime, he was elected into a Fellowship of St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he combined research with a great deal of teaching for a number of colleges in Classics and Ancient History.

At the age of 31, Michael Arnheim was invited to take up the position of full Professor and Head of the Department of Classics back at his old university in South Africa. During his time in that position, he devised a new system of learning Latin, for which he wrote a series of Latin stories titled The Adventures of Marcus . He also taught his students Spanish under the title of “Modern Latin,” using etymological links with English, along the lines later described in Gateway English: How to Boost your English Word Power and Unlock New Languages (2020.).

Despondent about the future of South Africa, Dr Arnheim returned to Britain, where he was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1988, combining his practice of law with the writing of books (23 to date)—a combination that is still continuing.

Arnheim’s books essentially belong to three main categories: history, religion, and law. His legal studies and practice soon made him aware of the injustice inherent in English law, resulting at least partly from what Lord Neuberger, the former President of the UK Supreme Court, had the courage in 2017 to describe as “a notable degree of disarray and a marked lack of reliable principle” in the whole vast field of the law of Tort. Arnheim’s legal writings have tackled this serious but veiled problem with suggested practical solutions.

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