Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur, count de
- Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur, count de
(1816-1882)
diplomat, writer
A social philosopher whose writings, including those on anti-Semitism, would later become the basis for much of modern racial and racist theory, Joseph-Arthur, count de Gobineau was born to an aristocratic family in Ville-d'Array, near Paris. From 1848 to 1877, he held diplomatic posts in iran, Germany, Greece, Brazil, and Sweden, and wrote several scholarly books describing his travels (Trois ans en Asie 1859; Traité des écritures cunéiformes, 1861; Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l'Asie centrale, 1865). He also wrote a journal (Nouvelles asiatiques, 1876) and novels (Le Prisonnier chanceux, 1847; Les Pléiades, 1874). His most famous work, however, was Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (1853-55), in which he stated that the Aryan, or Nordic, race was superior to all others. His ideas of racial superiority later influenced Richard Wagner and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and were exploited by the pan-Germanists and the National Socialists of Hitler's Germany.
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Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur, count de — born July 14, 1816, Ville d Avray, France died Oct. 13, 1882, Turin, Italy French diplomat and writer. While serving in the diplomatic service (1849–77), he wrote the Essay on the Inequality of Human Races (1853–55), which asserted the… … Universalium
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