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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 aristocrat and anthropologist, who is best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race and Nordicism. Known to his contemporaries as a novelist, diplomat and travel writer, 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's writings were quickly praised by white supremacist, pro-slavery Americans like Josiah C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur de Gobineau has received more than 885,109 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Arthur de Gobineau is the 370th most popular writer (down from 360th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from France (down from 395th in 2019) and the 64th 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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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 370 out of 5,755. Before him are Cyrano de Bergerac, William Wordsworth, Romain Gary, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Roth, and Henry James. After him are Ken Follett, Kenzaburō Ōe, Théophile Gautier, Marguerite Yourcenar, Auguste Escoffier, and Gabriele D'Annunzio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 4. Before him are Charlotte Brontë, Werner von Siemens, and Carl Zeiss. After him are Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Paul Reuter, Abbas I of Egypt, Antoine Béchamp, Carl Ludwig, and 10th Dalai Lama. Among people deceased in 1882, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 6. Before him are Charles Darwin, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Friedrich Wöhler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Jesse James. After him are Theodor Schwann, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bruno Bauer, Louis Blanc, Francesco Hayez, and William Stanley Jevons.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 429 out of 6,011. Before him are Genevieve (423), Marin Mersenne (1588), William II of England (1056), Fernand Léger (1881), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), and Patrice de MacMahon (1808). After him are Éric Rohmer (1920), Théophile Gautier (1811), Auguste Escoffier (1847), Francis Poulenc (1899), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), and Brigitte Macron (1953).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 64. Before him are Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Paul Éluard (1895), Jacques Prévert (1900), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse Daudet (1840), and Henri Charrière (1906). After him are Théophile Gautier (1811), Auguste Escoffier (1847), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), André Maurois (1885), Hector Malot (1830), and J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940).

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