Arthur de Gobineau

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Arthur de Gobineau was a 19th-century French aristocrat, diplomat, and writer best known for his racist theory of the inequality of human races, which became foundational to later scientific racism.

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instanceOf French person
aristocrat
diplomat
essayist
human
novelist
writer
associatedWith French Second Empire NERFINISHED
birthCountry France
birthDate 1816-07-14
birthPlace Ville-d’Avray NERFINISHED
citizenship France
deathCountry Italy NERFINISHED
deathDate 1882-10-13
deathPlace Turin NERFINISHED
employer French Ministry of Foreign Affairs NERFINISHED
familyName de Gobineau NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork history
literature
political theory
racial theory
fullName Joseph Arthur de Gobineau NERFINISHED
genre essay
historical novel
political philosophy
givenName Arthur NERFINISHED
Joseph NERFINISHED
ideology racial hierarchy
white supremacism
influenced Houston Stewart Chamberlain NERFINISHED
early racial theorists in Europe
intellectual currents that fed into Nazi racial ideology
knownFor formulating a theory of the inequality of human races
influencing later scientific racism
languageOfWork French
movement racialism
scientific racism
name Arthur de Gobineau NERFINISHED
nationality French
notableWork An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races NERFINISHED
occupation diplomat
essayist
novelist
philosopher
writer
originalTitle Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines NERFINISHED
positionHeld French diplomat
religion Roman Catholicism
servedAsDiplomatIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Germany NERFINISHED
Greece NERFINISHED
Persia NERFINISHED
Switzerland NERFINISHED
view argued for the superiority of the so-called Aryan race
believed that civilizations decline through racial mixing

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Madison Grant wasInfluencedBy Arthur de Gobineau