"Teutons are actually clumsy".
We already know that in the European Renaissance.
It was read in the recently rediscovered “Germania” by the Roman Tacitus.
He had written in the register of a Germanic tribe, the Chatten, to be reasonably prudent and skillful, which of course had to mean that the other tribes of Germania were not born with such prudence and skill.
As a “counter-figure to the educated, Latin-speaking humanist” and endowed with a guaranteed line of ancestors, the 'German Michel' soon emerged Century also cozy and personable features and at the beginning of the 19th the night cap was put on ", writes Ulrich Breuer in his 700-page attempt to present the history of German literature" as an examination of forms of clumsiness ".