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Ludwig was a great admirer of the musician, Richard Wagner, and shared some of his ideas of an idealistic society. However, he grew increasingly interested in an absolutist state, envisioning himself as a monarch with a role similar to that of Louis XIV.
A review of the psychiatric knowledge and societal philosophy of the time indicates that the psychiatrists were correct with their diagnosis in their time.
For more than years, people have questioned whether Ludwig II, the King of Bavaria β , was actually ill.
Most of those who study Ludwig think he was mentally ill [ 4 β 6 ]. However, not even experts fully agree on which illness he might have actually had. In , on the occasion of the th anniversary of the death of Ludwig II and his psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden β , historians presented sound publications of the extensive material [ 7 β 12 ]. They emphasized somewhat apodictically, however, that Gudden had misdiagnosed Ludwig [ 7 , 8 , 10 ], probably supported by psychiatric advice from others [ 2 , 4 ].
