Arthur de Gobineau
French diplomat and writer known for racial theories (1816–1882)
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19th-century French diplomat who became the godfather of scientific racism, peddling theories about Aryan superiority and racial hierarchy that would later find a horrifyingly receptive audience.
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Arthur de Gobineau, Count de Gobineau 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.
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