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Arthur de Gobineau

1816 - 1882

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Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (French: [ɡɔbino]; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French writer and diplomat who is best known for helping introduce scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race and Nordicism. 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. Gobineau was born to an aristocratic family of counts under the Ancien Régime. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur de Gobineau is the 417th most popular writer (down from 377th in 2019), the 490th most popular biography from France (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Writer.

Arthur de Gobineau is most famous for his work, "Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races."

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Among writers, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 417 out of 7,302. Before him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Sándor Petőfi, Wu Cheng'en, James Fenimore Cooper, and Henning Mankell. After him are Jack Kerouac, Pietro Aretino, Paula Hitler, Ennius, John Galsworthy, and Propertius.

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Among people born in 1816, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 4. Before him are Charlotte Brontë, Werner von Siemens, and Carl Zeiss. After him are Ferdinand II of Portugal, Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Abbas I of Egypt, Paul Reuter, Wazir Akbar Khan, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, and Carl Ludwig. Among people deceased in 1882, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 5. Before him are Charles Darwin, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Friedrich Wöhler, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. After him are Jesse James, Theodor Schwann, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Francesco Hayez, Bruno Bauer, Léon Gambetta, and Louis Blanc.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 490 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Nicolle (1866), Stephen, King of England (1095), André Masséna (1758), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633). After him are Genevieve (423), Childebert I (497), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Robert Delaunay (1885), Philippe Pinel (1745), and Françoise Hardy (1944).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 71. Before him are Théophile Gautier (1811), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Paul Éluard (1895), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636). After him are Jacques Prévert (1900), William of Rubruck (1220), Gregory of Tours (538), Georges Bataille (1897), Henri Barbusse (1873), and Louis Aragon (1897).

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