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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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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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
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literature ⓘ political theory ⓘ racial theory ⓘ |
| fullName | Joseph Arthur de Gobineau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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historical novel ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName |
Arthur
NERFINISHED
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Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
racial hierarchy
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white supremacism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
NERFINISHED
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early racial theorists in Europe ⓘ intellectual currents that fed into Nazi racial ideology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
formulating a theory of the inequality of human races
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influencing later scientific racism ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| movement |
racialism
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scientific racism ⓘ |
| name | Arthur de Gobineau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork | An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | French diplomat ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| servedAsDiplomatIn |
Brazil
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Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| view |
argued for the superiority of the so-called Aryan race
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believed that civilizations decline through racial mixing ⓘ |
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