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Arthur de Gobineau.
Arthur de Gobineau.

Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 — October 13, 1882) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855). Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Aristocracy is a form of Government, where rule is established through an internal struggle over who has the most status and influence over society and internal relations Racialism is an emphasis on race or racial considerations Racialism entails a belief in the existence and significance of racial categories but not necessarily in a The " Aryan race " is a concept in European culture that was influential in the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The master race ( German: die Herrenrasse) is a concept in Nazi Ideology, which holds that the Germanic and Nordic An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853&ndash1855 by Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau is a voluminous work while originally intended as a work of Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year De Gobineau is credited as being the father of modern racial demography. The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of categorizing Humans into Populations or groups on the basis of various sets Demography is the statistical study of all Populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic population that is one that changes over

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Life and racialist theories

Gobineau had a strained family life: his father was a government official and staunch royalist, his mother, Anne-Louise Magdeleine de Gercy, was the daughter of a royal tax official and a Creole woman from Santo Domingo, and a lady-in-waiting to Pauline Bonaparte, who subsequently published both a sentimental novel, Marguerite d'Alby (1821), and her own memoirs, Une Vie de Femme, Liée aux Événements de l'Époque (A Woman's Life, Tied to the Events of the Time, 1835). Marie Paulette (Pauline Bonaparte Princesse Française Princess and Duchess of Guastalla ( October 20, 1780 - June 9, 1825) was the When he was fourteen his mother eloped with another man and brought Josef with her to Switzerland for a few years. It was in Switzerland that he began his interest in Orientalism. Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers designers and artists and can also refer to a sympathetic stance

When Gobineau returned to France in the later years of the July monarchy, he made his living writing serialized fiction (romans-feuilletons) and contributing to reactionary periodicals. He struck up a friendship, and had voluminous correspondence with, Alexis de Tocqueville, who brought him into the foreign ministry while he was foreign minister during the Second Republic. [1] Gobineau was a successful diplomat for the French Second Empire. Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting Negotiations between representatives of groups or states The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870 between the Second Initially he was posted to Persia, before working in Brazil and other countries. The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld He came to believe that race created culture, arguing that distinctions between the three "black", "white", and "yellow" races were natural barriers, and that "race-mixing" breaks those barriers and leads to chaos. The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of categorizing Humans into Populations or groups on the basis of various sets Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic The term black people usually refers to a racial group of Humans with dark Skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. The term " Mongoloid " is a variation of the word "Mongol" meaning "Mongol-like" Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind" is the mixing of different racial groups, that is marrying, cohabiting He classified the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North Africa and southern France as racially mixed. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia For geopolitical treatments see South Asia. North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Southern France (or the South of France) colloquially known as Le Midi, is a loosely defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that

Gobineau believed the white race was superior to the others. He thought it corresponded to the ancient Indo-European culture, also known as "Aryan"(Indo-Iranian race). Gobineau originally wrote that white race miscegenation was inevitable. He attributed much of the economic turmoils in France to pollution of races. Later on in his life, he altered his opinion to believe that the white race could be saved.

To Gobineau, the development of empires was ultimately destructive to the "superior races" that created them, since they led to the mixing of distinct races. An empire (from the Latin " Imperium " denoting military Command within the ancient Roman government) is a State that This he saw as a degenerative process. According to his definitions, the people of Spain, most of France, most of Germany, southern and western Iran as well as Switzerland, Austria, northern Italy and a large part of Britain, consisted of a degenerative race arising from miscegenation. Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind" is the mixing of different racial groups, that is marrying, cohabiting Also according to him, the whole of north India consisted of a yellow race.


Hitler and Nazism borrowed much of Gobineau's ideology, though Gobineau himself was not particularly anti-Semitic. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German When the Nazis adopted Gobineau's theories, they were forced to edit his work extensively to make it conform to their views, much as they did in the case of Nietzsche. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15 1844 August 25 1900 ( was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist

Gobineau visited Bayreuth, home of Richard Wagner shortly before his death. Bayreuth ( pronounced) is a City in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb There he influenced the development of the anti-Semitic "Bayreuth circle". The Bayreuth Circle is a name originally applied by some writers to devotees of Wagner's music who attended and supported the annual Bayreuth Festival in the later 19th and early


Miscellaneous

To Bahá'ís, Gobineau is known as the person who obtained the only complete manuscript of the early history of the Bábí religious movement of Persia, written by Hâjji Mirza Jân of Kashan, who was put to death by the Persian authorities in c. The Bahá'í Faith is a Religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind Bábism () is a religious movement that flourished in Persia from 1844 to 1852 then lingered on in exile in the Ottoman Empire (especially Cyprus) as The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia Kashan is a city in the province of Isfahan, Iran. It had an estimated population of 272359 in 2005. 1852. Year 1852 ( MDCCCLII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The manuscript now is in the Bibliothèque nationale at Paris. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city

Gobineau also wrote novels, notably Les Pléiades (1874). Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common His study La Renaissance (1877) also was admired in his day. Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Both of these works strongly expressed his reactionary aristocratic politics, and his hatred of democratic mass culture. Reactionary (also reactionist) is a derogatory term usually used by the Left wing in regards to movements which oppose radical change in society and seeks a return Aristocracy is a form of Government, where rule is established through an internal struggle over who has the most status and influence over society and internal relations Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance —

Gobineau believed himself to be the descendant of Nordic Vikings and Condottieri. The Nordic race was one of the racial categories into which the Europeans were divided by anthropologists in the first half of the twentieth century A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas Condottieri (singular condottiero, rarely condottiero) were Mercenary leaders employed by the Italian City-states from the Late Middle

Gobineau was also a great philhellene. He wrote an important account of the original Greek State, the To the Kingdom of the Greeks in the end of the 19th century.

References

  1. ^ DJ. Richards, "Arthur de Gobineau" in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 123: Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Naturalism and Beyond, 1860-1900. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Catharine Savage Brosman, Tulane University. The Gale Group, 1992. pp. 101-117.

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