Arthur de Gobineau

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Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau

Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816October 13, 1882) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, novelist and man of letters. In 1849 he became private secretary to Alexis de Tocqueville who was foreign minister of France. Gobineau was the next 30 years a diplomat, during which time his understanding of the role of race in history and culture grew. He was a diplomat in Iran, Athens, Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm. He was effective diplomat and a man of great charm. He has been called the "founder of race realism."

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Races
Caucasoids, Indo-Europeans(Aryans), Negroids, Mongoloids, American Indians
Racial theorists
Carleton Coon, Lothrop Stoddard, Madison Grant, William Ripley, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, Joseph Pomeroy Widney, Samuel George Morton
Differences among races
Race and crime, Race and intelligence, Race and social behavior, Race and Psychopathic Personality
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Richard Lynn, John Philippe Rushton, Jared Taylor, Vladimir Avdeyev
Racialist thinkers
Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Veblen, Spengler, Darwin, Jack London, Francis Galton, Alfred Rosenberg, Meister Eckhart, D. P. Moran Irish, Thomas Jefferson
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