Arthur de Gobineau
French diplomat and writer known for racial theories
Why Is Arthur de Gobineau Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Arthur de Gobineau was a French aristocrat and anthropologist, who is best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race and Nordicism. Known to his contemporaries as a novelist, diplomat and travel writer, he was an elitist who, in the immediate aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, wrote An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. In it he argued that aristocrats were superior to commoners and that aristocrats possessed more Aryan genetic traits because of less interbreeding with inferior races.
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What Are Arthur de Gobineau's Academic Contributions?
Arthur de Gobineau has made the following academic contributions:
