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Houston Stewart Chamberlain (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər l ɪ n /; 9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British-German philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism , antisemitism , scientific racism , and Nordicism ; he has been described as a "racialist writer". [1]
- 9 September 1855, Southsea, Hampshire, England
- Basil Hall Chamberlain (brother)
- William Charles Chamberlain (1818–1878) (father)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (born Sept. 9, 1855, Southsea, Hampshire, Eng.—died Jan. 9, 1927, Bayreuth, Ger.) was a British-born Germanophile political philosopher, whose advocacy of the racial and cultural superiority of the so-called Aryan element in European culture influenced pan-German and German nationalist thought, particularly Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist movement.
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Natural science
Under the tutelage of Professor Julius von Wiesner of the University of Vienna, Chamberlain studied botany in Geneva, earning a Bacheliers ès sciences physiques et naturelles in 1881. His thesis Recherches sur la sève ascendante (Studies on rising sap) was not finished until 1897 and did not culminate with a degree.The main thrust of his dissertation is that the vertical transport of fluids in vascular plants via xylem can not be explained by the fluid mechanical theories of the time, but onl...
Richard Wagner
Chamberlain was an admirer of Richard Wagner, and wrote several commentaries on his works including Notes sur Lohengrin (“Notes on Lohengrin”) (1892), an analysis of Wagner's drama (1892), and a biography (1895), emphasizing in particular the heroic Teutonic aspects in the composer's works. One modern critic, Stewart Spencer in Wagner Remembered.(London 2000) has described his edition of Wagner letters as "one of the most egregious attempts in the history of musicology to misrepresent an arti...
Foundations
In 1899 Chamberlain wrote his most important work, Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts(in German). The work says Western civilization is deeply marked by the influence of Teutonic peoples. Chamberlain grouped all European peoples—not just Germans, but Celts, Slavs, Greeks, and Latins—into the "Aryan race," a race built on the ancient Proto-Indo-European culture. At the helm of the Aryan race, and, indeed, all races, were the Nordic or Teutonic peoples. The Foundations sold extensively...
During his lifetime Chamberlain's works were read widely throughout Europe, and especially in Germany. His reception was particularly favorable among Germany's conservative elite. Kaiser Wilhelm II patronized Chamberlain, maintaining a correspondence, inviting him to stay at his court, distributing copies of Foundations of the Nineteenth Century am...
Notes sur Lohengrin(his first published work), Dresden.Das Drama Richard Wagners, 1892.Recherches sur La Seve Ascendante, Neuchatel, 1897.The Life of Wagner, Munich, 1897, translated into English by G. Ainslie Hight.Adorno, Theodor W. On the Question: “What is German?” trans. Thomas Y. Levin, New German Critique,No. 36. 1985, 123. ISSN 0094-033XBramwell, A., Blood and Soil - Richard Walther Darré and Hitler's "Green Party". London: 1985, 23 and 40, ISBN 0946041334Cecil, Robert. The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology. London: Dodd, Mead & Co/Batsford, 1972, 12-13, ISBN 071341121XChamberlain., H.S. (1897). Recherche sur la sève ascendante.Neuchatel: Attinger Freres, Editeurs.All links retrieved January 15, 2018. 1. Theodore Roosevelt's review of The Foundations of the 19th Century 2. Houston Stewart Chamberlain biography and transcriptions- online compendium arranged by an admirer.
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a social Darwinist and a true racist. He also had quite a vast cultural knowledge for a self-made man. Both an art lover and a dilettante, he was welcomed into Richard Wagner’s larger circles when he became his son-in-law. In 1899, his Foundations of the 19th Century allowed him to reach public fame.
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May 29, 2018 · The English-born German writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) formulated the most important theory of Teutonic superiority in pre-Hitlerian German thought. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born in Southsea, England, on Sept. 9, 1855. He was the son of an English captain, later admiral. Two of his uncles were generals, and a third was a ...
CHAMBERLAIN, HOUSTON STEWART (1855–1927) Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the Anglo-German race theorist and philosophical and historical writer, was born in Southsea, near Portsmouth, England. Despite his English birth and family, his early indifference toward England and all things English developed into a lifelong hatred.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, scientific racism, and Nordicism; he has been described as a "racialist writer". His best-known book, the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, published 1899, became highly influential in the ...
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