Florian Krobb

Florian Krobb is Professor of German at Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Having published widely on the German discourse of Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, he has also written on Richard Bermann and re-edited his trenchant biography of the Sudanese Mahdi, Die Derwischtrommel (Berlin 2019) (first published 1929; in English as The Mahdi of Allah: The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed, with an...See more

Florian Krobb is Professor of German at Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Having published widely on the German discourse of Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, he has also written on Richard Bermann and re-edited his trenchant biography of the Sudanese Mahdi, Die Derwischtrommel (Berlin 2019) (first published 1929; in English as The Mahdi of Allah: The Story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed, with an introduction by Winston Churchill, 1931). See less