WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur de Gobineau has received more than 983,754 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Arthur de Gobineau is the 377th most popular writer (down from 369th in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from France (down from 429th in 2019) and the 65th 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

Among writers, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 377 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Tulsidas, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Grazia Deledda, Enheduanna, and Theocritus. After him are Julio Cortázar, Georges Bataille, Sergei Yesenin, Jean Genet, Cornelius Nepos, and Elena Ferrante.

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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, Paul Reuter, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Abbas I of Egypt, Carl Ludwig, Franz Sacher, and John Frederick Kensett. 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 Theodor Schwann, Jesse James, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bruno Bauer, William Stanley Jevons, Francesco Hayez, and Léon Gambetta.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 442 out of 6,770. Before him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Robert Campin (1375), Robert Delaunay (1885), Isabella of France (1295), Albert Lebrun (1871), and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845). After him are Georges Bataille (1897), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Jean Genet (1910), Elisabeth of France (1602), Hippolyte Taine (1828), and Anouk Aimée (1932).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Arthur de Gobineau ranks 65. Before him are Henri Charrière (1906), Ève Curie (1904), André Malraux (1901), Théophile Gautier (1811), Paul Éluard (1895), and Alphonse de Lamartine (1790). After him are Georges Bataille (1897), Jean Genet (1910), Gregory of Tours (538), Jacques Prévert (1900), René Guénon (1886), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636).

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