Gobineau Society

The Gobineau Society (German: Gobineau-Vereinigung) was an association founded in 1894 at Freiburg to honor Arthur de Gobineau's name and revive his theories both in France and in Germany.

History

The Society was created by Ludwig Schemann and a number of noted members of the Bayreuth circle. The French branch received little support and never really flourished. It was not initially popular in Germany either, but there it received the wholehearted support of the Count of Sandels, the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg and the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, among many influential authors, artists and academics. The Gobineau Society's publications appeared as a supplement to the Bayreuther Blätter. The Society also reprinted in French and carefully translated into German the major works of Gobineau.

Arrigo Boito, Diane de Guldencrone, Max Müller, Alfred Bovet, José Vianna da Motta, Rudolf Götze, and several other European notabilities were either patrons or sponsors of the Society.

Members

• Florimond de Basterot
• Ludwig Baur
• Hans Bechly
• Paul Bourget
• Alexander Cartellieri
• Houston Stewart Chamberlain
• Ernst Curtius
• Anton Delbrück
• Hugo Dinger
• Heinrich Driesmans
• Ernst von Düring
• Christian Eckert
• Oskar Eisenmann
• Paul Förster
• Theodor Fritsch
• Carl Friedrich Glasenapp
• Maximilian Glasenapp
• Hugo Göring
• Harald Grävell
• Ernst Grosse
• Edward Habich
• Franz Hahne
• Paul Haupt
• Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler
• Erich Jung
• Paul Wilhelm von Keppler
• Paul Kleinecke
• Friedrich Klose
• Gustaf Kossinna
• Franz Xaver Kraus
• Eugen Kretzer
• Anna de Lagarde
• Friedrich Lange
• Jules Lefaivre
• Reinhold von Lichtenberg
• Friedrich Lienhard
• Julius Lohmeyer
• Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert
• Aloys Obrist
• Sergey Oldenburg
• Anton Prokesch von Osten the Younger
• Max Adolf Pfeiffer
• Richard Pietschmann
• Richard Plüddemann
• Heinrich Potpeschnigg
• Arthur Prüfer
• Josef Ludwig Reimer
• Renée-Anna Renaud d'Avène des Méloizes-Fresnoy
• Alfred Roth
• Mathilde Sallier de La Tour
• Ludwig Schemann
• Friedrich Schneider
• Édouard Schuré
• Otto Schmidt-Gibichenfels
• Marie von Schleinitz
• Rudolf Schlösser
• Bruno Schmitz
• Alfred Schöne
• Alfred Seeliger
• Hans Sommer
• Albert Sorel
• Martin Spahn
• Henry Thode
• Emil Thormählen
• Karl J. Trübner
• Georges Vacher de Lapouge
• Tancrède de Visan
• Ernst Wachler
• Cosima Wagner
• Ernst von Wildenbruch
• Anselm Windhausen
• Gustav Wittmer
• Hans von Wolzogen

References

• Chickering, Roger (1984). We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914. Boston: George Allen & Unwin.
• Köck, Julian (2011). "Ludwig Schemann und die Gobineau-Vereinigung," Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, Vol. LIX, No. 9, pp. 723–40.
• Köck, Julian (2012). "Gobineau-Vereinigung." In: Handbuchs des Antisemitismus, Band 5. Organisationen, Institutionen, Bewegungen. Saur: De Gruyter, 288–90.
• Schemann, Ludwig (1907). Die Gobineau-Sammlung der kaiserlichen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek zu Strassburg. Strassburg: K. J. Trübner.
• Schemann, Ludwig (1919). Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Gobineau-Vereinigung: 1894-12. Febr.-1919: Ein Rückblick. Strassburg/Berlin: Trübner.
• Sorel, Albert (1904). "Le Comte de Gobineau et la Ligue Gobinienne en Allemagne," Les Temps, 44e Année, No. 15620.