This book had already been published in 1850, but anonymously. Es war hohe Zeit, dass der Retter erschien, Ibid., p.549. Meuchelmrderisch hatte sich der asiatische und afrikanische Knecht bis zum Thron des rmischen Imperiums hinaufgeschlichen, inzwischen der syrische Bastard sich des Gesetzeswerkes bemchtigte, der Jude die Bibliothek zu Alexandria benutzte, um hellenische Philosophie dem mosaischen Gesetze anzupassen (). Houston Stewart Chamberlain, (born Sept. 9, 1855, Southsea, Hampshire, Eng.died Jan. 9, 1927, Bayreuth, Ger. This is summed up by Chamberlain who, contrary to Hegel who wrote Ex oriente lux, pretends that Ex septentrione lux: the beacon of civilization lies in the north with the white Germanic race. Chamberlain scorned this racial chaos of the late Roman Empire, which destroyed any racial and national principle, this chaos of peoples of the decadent Roman Empire being a capital sin against nature. In fact, I would call you the complete opposite of a fanatic. In 1899 he published Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, 2 vol., 1911), a broad but biased analysis of European culture, in which he claimed that the Western Aryan peoples have been responsible for the greatness and creativity of Europe, and that the Jewish influence has been primarily negative. I want to cry out, I want to weep.29. The Romans, of course, were the best, but they did not protect themselves; they did not protect the excellence of their blood. Dass der Schwerpunkt der Kultur endgltig nach Westen verlegt, dass der semitisch-asiatische Bann gebrochen (), dass das vorwiegend indogermanische Europa nunmehr das schlagende Herz und das sinnende Hirn der ganzen Menschheit wurde, das ist das Werk Roms, Ibid., p.168. Es hat meine Gedanken beschftigt, wieso gerade Sie, der Sie in so seltenem Grade ein Erwecker der Seelen aus Schlaf und Schlendrian sind, mir einen so langen erquickenden Schlaf neulich schenkten, wie ich einen hnlichen nicht erlebt habe seit dem verhngnisvollen Augusttag 1914, wo das tckische Leiden mich befiel. Regrettably, a number of Chamberlain's most important works are still accessible only to those who know German, the language in which he did Having learned, from a very young age, at least two foreign languages, he almost wrote better in French and in German than he did in English. And this is the reason why it triumphantly . 20Houston Stewart Chamberlain died far too early to witness the rise of the NSDAP and the Gleichschaltung of Germany under Nazi rule. they believed that the Nordic race had become superior because harsh climatic conditions . Chamberlain now expressed this philosophical allegiance to German imperialism with the most brutal cynicism: "Nobody can prove that Germanic supremacy is a blessing for all the Earth's . Es gibt eine Gewalt, die aus Chaos stammt und zu Chaos hinfhrt, und es gibt eine Gewalt, deren Wesen es ist, Kosmos zu gestalten. Order: by ; in john and livi come dine with me; on June 29, 2022 . . These people are too stupid to think for themselves28. otto porter wilt chamberlain son. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born in Southsea, England, on Sept. 9, 1855. Educated at Versailles, Geneva, and Vienna, Chamberlain became an admirer of Richard Wagner, publishing his first work, Notes sur Lohengrin (Notes on Lohengrin), in 1892. In the 1031 pages of the two volumes, Chamberlain borrowed ideas from the leading sciences of the time (history and the natural sciences) and stood up for the dominant ideas, at the. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British racial theorist and philosopher, the son-in-law of Richard Wagner, a prolific writer and also a significant contributor to Adolf Hitler's thinking about race and in general, to National-Socialist racial ideas and ultimately, policy. Schemann, who held a doctorate in history from the University of Berlin, made a living as a raciologist (Rassenkndler) at the University of Freiburg and translated Gobineaus work in German. For many people in the 19th century, it was a vital question19: many Christian racists of the period could not bear the idea of their Messiah being a Jew. He became ill but was reinvigorated by a visit Adolf Hitler paid him in 1923. Greetings to you, spiritual father. 20 Bergen, Doris L., Twisted Cross. More importantly, they would prevent any further decadence and avoid mixing with inferior races, like the Jews or other crossbreds. Houston Stewart Chamberlain - a Darwinist whom was identified as racist theorist was also a cultural critic. If Greece had fathered the spirit, Rome had mastered the organisation. Indeed, I would also describe you as the opposite of a politician, in the commonly accepted sense of the word, for the essence of all politics is membership of a party, whereas with you all parties disappear, consumed by the heat of your love for the fatherland.26. This beautiful race (in every regard) was dominant in Germany and Austria, but also within the elites of the British Empire and of the United States of America; it extended to the French elites as well, but only partly. Having learned, from a very young age, at least two foreign languages, he almost wrote better in French and in German than he did in English. An early Lord Haw-Haw of sorts who was even awarded the iron cross by Kaiser William II, not for fighting in the muddy trenches of the Somme, but for insulting London in vindictive articles. Houston Stewart Chamberlain - The German WorldviewAlexander Jacob - with Pedro VarelaLibreria Europa, Barcelona, 2007https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761829126/Po. Here, in Greece, every river, every stone lives and is an individual. The Syrian bastard had taken possession of laws, and the Jew used the Library of Alexandria to adapt Greek philosophy to the Mosaic Law (). Later, the Wagner family would welcome another subject of the British Empire: Winifred Williams. I want to cry out, I want to weep. And Chamberlain would not be the last to perform such a tour de force. In a criminal way, the Asian and African slave had crawled up to the throne of the Roman Empire. But in his book, Chamberlain laid down the foundations for a vision of history that was to nurture the Nazi. 16 Das Rassen- und Nationalittlose Vlkerchaos des sptrmischen Imperiums, Ibid., p.371. Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1912). Doch nicht etwa der fleissige Konversationslexikonsredakteuyr Plinius?, in Chamberlain. Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005. 2 diciembre, 2021 | . An Anthology of Texts, London, Routledge, 2002. 12/02/2021 . He reciprocated by paying a tribute to Chamberlain in Mein Kampf. 27 Sie haben Gewaltiges zu leisten vor sich, aber trotz Ihrer Willenskraft halte ich Sie nicht fr einen Gewaltmenschen. Griechenland hat stets nach Asien gravitiert, bis Rom es losriss. . A true anti-Semite, Wagner wrote an essay against the perversion of the arts by the Jews entitled Jewishness in Music (Das Judentum in der Musik1) that led Friedrich Nietzsche to break with him but that gained him the affection of many dubious devotees. The most important promoter of racial ideology in Europe during the mid-19th century was Joseph-Arthur, comte de Gobineau, who had an almost incalculable effect on late 19th-century social theory. 4Thanks to this book, and because he was someone who mattered in Bayreuth, Chamberlain later became a very important mediator in the formulation of the Nazi ideology, before he died in 1927. Houston Stewart Chamberlain Aryan World-view Because truth lays beyond the reach of the intellect, we can't use words for it. What mattered to them was biology and race, not the law or a mere artificial citizenship. Fenske, Wolfgang, Wie Jesus zum Arier wurde. In this monumental piece of work, he tried to answer the following questions: what made (t)his period the most remarkable one in history? I am deeply upset. You are free: to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix - to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. They settled down in Greece and Rome, enjoying the benefits of cultural photosynthesis, thanks to the sun and mild climate of the Mediterranean. 2A passionate and self-educated man, Houston Stewart Chamberlain studied and read a lot, eager to explore many different fields at once: history, philosophy or the natural sciences. While their cousins who had stayed in the north still ate raw meat and lived in caverns, the Germans of the Souththat is to say, the Greeks and the Romansate healthy food and created civilisation. This second visit was, according to Goebbels, a heartbreaking episode which Berlins new Gauleiter described in his diary, in May 1926: Shattering scene: Chamberlain on a couch. () Where are the roman scientists? Jetzt glaube ich einzusehen, da dies grade Ihr Wesen bezeichnet und sozusagen umschliet: der wahre Erwecker ist zugleich Spender der Ruhe. It was not really a success, mainly because Hitler did not agree with Chamberlains glorification of Christian culture; but also because he believed that Christ was a mixed-blood; he who was born, according to the Fhrer, from a Roman soldier and a Palestinian prostitute named Mary21: You cannot make an Aryan out of Jesus that is nonsense. This obsession with diseases and the assimilation of blood-mixing with infection is a common characteristic, as well as a deep concern, among the most convinced racists of the time,23 and not just in Germany. Die vlkische Bewegung im wilhelminischen Kaiserreich. I, chap. Johann Chapoutot, From Humanism to Nazism: Antiquity in the Work of Houston Stewart Chamberlain ,Miranda [Online], 11|2015, Online since 23 July 2015, connection on 05 March 2023. But something is as clear as the sun at midday: if the Phenician people had not been exterminated () mankind would never have experienced () this 19, century that we can consider with pride and hope, For Chamberlain, the victory of the Carthaginians over the Romans would have been a catastrophe: We have been saved by the brutal, of Cato and the likes. The immigration of strangers to the race was recurrently presented as the invasion of microbes and viruses into a healthy and sound body. not object to Chamberlain's making the Germanic race (which means for him Celts, Teutons, and Slavs, the . In 1899, his. In very ancient times, Germanic tribes had come from the north to colonize the south. However, it was quite successful from the 1900s to the 1930s; it sold over 200000 copies. Remaining in Germany during World War I, Chamberlain received the German Military Cross in 1915 and became naturalized the next year. 10, p.296, in the English translation by MURPHY, James, London, Hurst and Blackett, 1939, vol. This book had already been published in 1850, but anonymously. He became ill but was reinvigorated by a visit Adolf Hitler paid him in 1923. Chamberlain was brought up by relatives in France. Now I believe I understand that it is precisely this that characterizes and defines your being: the true awakener is at the same time the bestower of peace25. Thanks to this book, and because he was someone who mattered in Bayreuth, Chamberlain later became a very important mediator in the formulation of the Nazi ideology, before he died in 1927. Chamberlain is not the first eccentric who is championing this very bizarre causeperhaps bizarre only to us. Despite this biological disaster or the inevitable fall of the Romans, the Nordic race did not disappear. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. . After attending a lyce in Versailles and a boarding school in Cheltenham, he visited destination spas and various health resortshe did not have a very sound constitutionwith his chaperon and a tutor. Historians must therefore make the effort to understand that, for Chamberlains coevals, his book was important in that it provided an answer, at the time, to important questions and, to a larger extent, tried to give a meaning to history. Hitler and Goebbels got the chance to pay him another visit, in May 1926, just before he passed away. (M a h b h r a t a) 4 Translation from the German, based upon the 8th edition of Arische Weltanschauung, published by F. Bruckmann A.-G., Munich 1938 5 Dedicated to the indologist Leopold von Schroeder Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) war einer der wirkungsmchtigsten Publizisten im Deutschen Kaiserreich. This is one of the better clichs of the German historiography of the second half of the 19. century: only the Nordic king, Alexander of Macedonia, managed to unify Greece and put an end to endless campaigns by creating an Empire, like King Wilhelm of Prussia who succeeded in 1871 in unifying the different German tribes and states into a mighty Empire. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism , antisemitism , and scientific racism ; and he has been described as a "racialist writer". Without him, the Indo-Europeans would have disappeared. It was not really a success, mainly because Hitler did not agree with Chamberlains glorification of Christian culture; but also because he believed that Christ was a mixed-blood; he who was born, according to the Fhrer, from a Roman soldier and a Palestinian prostitute named Mary, : You cannot make an Aryan out of Jesus that is nonsense. Introduction Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) is best known for his cultural history Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Foundations of the Nineteenth Century; Munich, 1899) as well as for his studies of Kant, Goethe, Wagner, and Heinrich von Stein. This attempt at completing the Nazi evangelium was not crowned with success: Hitler, who considered. In 1923, ten years before Adolf Hitler was appointed as Reich . Historians must therefore make the effort to understand that, for Chamberlains coevals, his book was important in that it provided an answer, at the time, to important questions and, to a larger extent, tried to give a meaning to history. Only 1869 did Richard Wagner authorize its publication under his name. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a social Darwinist and a true racist. What Chamberlain wrote in his Foundations is just stupid, to put it nicely22. Broken, mumbling, tears in his eyes. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, and scientific racism; and he has been described as a "racialist writer". 3This book has the reputation of being hard, if not impossible, to read. SpracheRasseReligion, Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a typical member of the 19, century British gentry but had the most atypical destinya destiny which was built around the culture of two countries: England which he left early and Germany which was to become his true home. Literature. Ein Beitrag zur historischen Methodenkritik, in, Hellas: Griechische Geschichte und deutsche Geisteswissenschaft. (). In a criminal way, the Asian and African slave had crawled up to the throne of the Roman Empire. Houston Stewart Chamberlain. 24 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, Sehr geehrter und lieber Herr Hitler 7. He imported some of his arguments from the . This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Houston-Stewart-Chamberlain, The Official Site of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. This idea was borrowed by Chamberlain from many racist historians and theoreticians of the time. Says the author, Chika Onyeani, "We are a conquered race and it is utterly foolish for . Omissions? 19Although he did not agree with everything he had written in the Foundations, Hitler knew how to value such honour. Miranda. , Mnchen, C.H. Assistance with short selling your home Chamberlains theories owed much to the writings of Joseph Arthur, comte de Gobineau, who was the first to claim to prove the superiority of the Nordic race. The main postulate was quite simple: everything in human history and culture could be explained by race, as Schemann would later emphasize in the three volumes of his Rasse in den Geisteswissenschaften. No surprise there, because, according to him, Christ was also a German. Jerusalem is to be destroyed: an imperative the Romans followed at least twice, to crush the rebellions of those Jews who spend their time revolting against every state order because their race was synonymous with chaos. houston stewart chamberlain, the importance of race summary . He was therefore read and admired by the major figures of the Nazi ideologyone of whom was Hitlerand became, just before he died, in the 1920s, one of the leading minds of their movement. of his time. After years of travelling and wandering/wondering about new ideas, he found in the racist theories of Schemann and other Rassentheoretiker of the time a unified vision of the worlda true Weltanschauung. They settled down in Greece and Rome, enjoying the benefits of cultural photosynthesis, thanks to the sun and mild climate of the Mediterranean. 6 Drben, im asiatischen Osten, hatten und haben nicht einmal die Menschen Persnlichkeit, hier, in Hellas, ist jeder Fluss, jeder Stein belebt, individualisiert, die stumme Natur erwacht zum Bewusstsein ihrer selbst, in Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, op. Delenda est Carthago, but this time for gooda word to the wise for people who were sent fighting the new Carthage of Jewish bolshevism on the Eastern front. Results for 'Houston+Stewart+Chamberlain' 11 found. He wrote these excerpts to make Germany aware of what he . To prove the excellence of Germanic blood, scientists and race specialists had argued, since the 1830s, that every light came from the North, and not from the East. Chamberlain could very well have been a poor mans Hegel: rewriting the history of civilization in a less than talented way, apologizing for not being able to elaborate further on what he was talking about because it would take too long and writing much nonsense on the science of the time which he was already busy repudiating. For many people in the 19, : many Christian racists of the period could not bear the idea of their Messiah being a Jew. The early, of the 1920s or the people who cast their ballot for the NSDAP in the 1930s did not want the annihilation of Poland or the Holocaust. Chamberlain married the composer's daughter some years after Wagner's death. I, chap. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1996. You stand by us when we are near despair. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Johann Chapoutot. The Jews are a case in point; if a man possesses a sacred book, which contains all wisdom, then all further investigation is as superfluous as it is sinful: the . (). Christ, Karl, Hellas: Griechische Geschichte und deutsche Geisteswissenschaft, Mnchen, C.H. Reassured though he was to have met the saviour of Germany and of the German race, Chamberlain did not die right away and had to wait four more years before falling into a deep and peaceful sleep. The son of a naval officerhis father was an admiral in the Royal Navy , he spent his whole youth travelling around Europe. . Houston Stewart Chamberlain died far too early to witness the rise of the NSDAP and the, of Germany under Nazi rule. What is left of Rome today is no other than a landscape of ruins which looks like the white skeleton of a dead civilization. Chamberlain scorned this racial chaos of the late Roman Empire, which destroyed any racial and national principle16this chaos of peoples of the decadent Roman Empire being a capital sin against nature17. They then engaged with the Romans: Carthage was a Jewish kingdom and Hannibal himself was some sort of a fighting rabbi! The early Parteigenossen of the 1920s or the people who cast their ballot for the NSDAP in the 1930s did not want the annihilation of Poland or the Holocaust. Apart from being a compendium of all the cultural clichs of the time, Chamberlains. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who spoke fluent German, belonged from then on to the sanctum of Germano-maniac racism, a group of worshippers who had gathered around Richard Wagner: Wagner, the bard of a reinvented Germanic mythology, who celebrated heroic figures of oneiric purity and had a slight tendency of considering that his agethe 19, centurywas leading white Germanic mankind towards decadence, degeneration and death. This idea according to which the Greeks and the Germans shared the same taste for beauty had been a commonplace for, since Johann Winckelmann published, in 1764, his, In the words of Chamberlain: This assumption of the importance of the arts corresponds to a specific character of the German mind, if I am not mistaken, But what was to be said about Rome? This lie, which poisons both the life of the individual and of society, this lie, which will drag us sooner or later into utter barbarism, for it will, as a . Greek and Roman antiquity play an essential part in his argumentation. 23 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: A Translation from the German by John Lees, vol. Why was the world precisely how it should be (the white population thus rewarded for its supremacy over the others)? The Europe the Romans had ambitioned was saved by a racial messiah: the Germanic tribes which, by invading the Empire, preserved the continent and its civilization. But his several tracts written during World War I are interesting in their own right as documents of German nationalist . Meuchelmrderisch hatte sich der asiatische und. Trailblazer, pioneer! and not just in Germany. Hitler saw in Christianity a lethal plague that had affected Europe because of the Jews who made Christians out of Germans to weaken them.
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