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  Houston Stewart Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born on September 9, 1855, in Southsea, England.
Chamberlain used a now discredited notion of the ethnic make up of Galilee to argue that, while Jesus may have been Jewish by religion, he was not Jewish by race.
Chamberlain was at ease in the German language and wrote in it.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain Summary
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the Anglo-German race theorist and philosophical and historical writer, was born in Southsea, near Portsmouth, England.
Chamberlain's intellectual development began with the study of botany and other natural sciences; this was soon completely supplanted by a preoccupation with philosophy, literature, theology, art, and history.
Chamberlain's "Lebenslehre" (Theory of life), which he first drafted in 1896 (it was not published until 1928 and was then titled Natur und Leben [Nature and life]), presented the position of most of his later writings, a position to which he frequently sacrificed historical truth in Die Grundlagen des 19.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born in Southsea, England, on Sept. 9, 1855.
Chamberlain preferred to write in German, and his major works were composed in that language.
Chamberlain's most significant work is The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), which demonstrates his thesis that the history of a people or race is determined by its racial character and abilities.
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 Biographie: Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 1855-1927
Chamberlain ist zeitlebens ein leidenschaftlicher Verehrer Wagners, der für ihn Inbegriff deutscher Kulturgröße ist.
Chamberlain charakterisiert die Germanen als die kulturschöpferische Rasse, die für die Aufrechterhaltung christlicher Kultur gegenüber den Einflüssen des Judentums verantwortlich sei.
Chamberlains Werk wird intensiv von der völkischen Bewegung rezipiert.
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 The Swastika and the Nazis. Page 6.
Another possible link between the swastika and the Nazis may be through Houston Stewart Chamberlain, one of the prophets of the coming race of Aryan [1] supermen which, as he admitted, might not exist, but which should exist in the future.
Born in 1855, Chamberlain was the son of an English Admiral and the nephew of Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was the main mentor of Alfred Rosenberg, whose Myth of the 20th Century was the sequel to Chamberlain's work.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At age 14 he suffered from seriously poor health and travelled to various spas around Europe, always accompanied by his Prussian tutor who taught him German and interested him with German culture and history.
The work focuses on the controversial notion that Western civilization is deeply marked by the influence of the "Germanic" race.
Chamberlain's thoughts were influenced by the writings of Arthur de Gobineau.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain - biography and transcriptions
Chamberlain's father, Rear-Admiral William Charles Chamberlain, had planned a military career for his son, and at 11 years old he was sent to a boarding school for future army and navy officers.
Chamberlain had to rest, and while recuperating he began studying history, philosophy, literature and music, as well as writing his first essay in German.
Chamberlain, who was by now elderly, ill and embittered, regarded Hitler as Germany's future saviour, and after this meeting he wrote to Hitler: „In no way do you resemble the descriptions depicting you as a fanatic.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain - Wikipedia
Vater und Sohn blieben sich Zeit ihres Lebens fremd, was vor allem daran lag, dass Chamberlain und seine Brüder die nächsten zehn Jahre in Versailles bei ihrer Großmutter und ihrer Tante verbrachten und ihren Vater kaum zu Gesicht bekamen.
Chamberlain schuf ein Standardwerk des theoretischen Rassenantisemitismus, das einen großen Einfluss auf das Denken von Alfred Rosenberg und später Adolf Hitler hatte.
Motiviert durch den großen Erfolg seiner Werke, verfasste Chamberlain neben zahlreichen Aufsätzen zu Richard Wagner und Bayreuth in den folgenden Jahren einige Bühnestücke zahlreiche Monographien, darunter eine Einführung in das Werk Immanuel Kant (1905).
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 The Foundations of the 19th Century, Prefaces & Index
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born at Southsea in 1855, the son of Admiral William Charles Chamberlain.
Chamberlain is inclined to make an exception in favour of Lucretius, of whom in a footnote he says that he is worthy of admiration both as thinker and bard.
That Chamberlain is a strong Anti-Semite adds to the value of the testimony which he bears to the nobility of the Sephardim, the intensely aristocratic Jews of Spain and Portugal, the descendants of the men whom the Romans, dreading their influence, deported westward.
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 Bibliography of Houston Stewart Chamberlain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chamberlain and his first wife, Anna Horst, were amateur photographers themselves, they made thousands of photos, and they won several prizes for their work.
According to Chamberlain, this essay made him „kind of“ famous in Roumania; thousands of copies were made and spread around the country, and he received letter after letter from Roumanians expressing their approval.
Rezension zu: Houston Stewart Chamberlain und Friedrich Poske.
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 Racism And Social Darwinism
His theory was taken up and commented on by such 'official' founders of racism as Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and the racist ideology which emerged was then put into practice by the Nazis and other fascists.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain who contributed to carrying some of these ideas a stage further… Hitler himself admired the author (Chamberlain) sufficiently to visit him on his deathbed in 1927.
From racists such as Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain Hitler took over a politically-centred racism, and a biological one from Haeckel.
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Chamberlain viewed Jesus as Aryan-like in his character and teachings -- a tough, combative teacher-hero who affirmed life and demonstrated "the ancient hardness of the heroic spirit" in such teachings as "Let the dead bury their dead." 
Chamberlain, in a lengthy chapter titled "The Entrance of the Jews into the History of the West," contended that Judaism had "instilled" a "peculiar and absolutely un-Aryan spirit" into Christianity. 
  This assertion reflected Chamberlain's low view of the historical reliability and inspirational authority of the Bible (in keeping with late 19th-century "higher criticism" of the Bible), a position that allowed him to pick and choose from the New Testament what constituted the original or "true" nature of Christianity.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain (* 9.09 1855 in Portsmouth; † 9.01 1927 in Bayreuth) war ein englisch-deutscher Schriftsteller und Kulturphilosoph.
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 Houston Stewart Chamberlain - Wikipédia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Né à Southsea, Houston Stewart Chamberlain vécut en Allemagne dès l'âge de 14 ans : sa famille l'y avait envoyé pour soigner une santé fragile.
Chamberlain incluait dans la race aryenne les peuples celtiques et nordiques, qu'il considérait comme appartenant à la même famille germanique.
Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, Chamberlain écrivit des articles contre son pays d'origine et prit la nationalité allemande.
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 Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign.
The Chamberlain is an officer of Kellogg College, Oxford, currently Vincent Strudwick.
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, son of Joseph Chamberlain.
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 THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT - Selected Biographies - C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
CHAMBERLAIN, HOUSTON STEWART (1855-1927) Writer and cultural philosopher.
CHAMBERLAIN, NEVILLE (1869-1940) Cousin of Houston Stewart Chamberlain and British Prime Minister who represented England at the Munich Conference.
Chamberlain's policy of appeasement toward Hitler, though highly praised at the time, is now almost universally criticized.
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 Jewish History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wagner's daughter married the English/French anti-Semite, Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
He was a proponent of the superiority of the Teutonic race.
Chamberlain was the author of "Foundation of the Nineteenth Century" which Julius Streicher, the Nazi founder of Der Stuermer, called "the greatest book since the gospel".
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 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1855-1927)
Son of the British admiral William Charles Chamberlain.
After his mother's death he grew up at Versailles with his grandmother.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain - biography and transcriptions
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 Amazon.com: "Houston Stewart Chamberlain": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There was also a copy of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Foundations of the Nineteenth Century.
Themes of Anti-Semitism 71 nationalist press and the highly influential anti-Semite Houston Stewart Chamberlain bitterly accused Jewish-owned newspapers, and especially the Frankfurter Zeitung, of representing Anglo-American financial and political interests to the detriment of...
Jewish "materialism" served as the foil to German "idealism" in Houston Stewart Chamberlain 's widely-read Foundations of the Vineteenth (,enter), (Doc.
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 Christian and Jewish History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Social scientists like Comte Joseph Arthur Gobineau, the economist Karl Duhring and the English writer Houston Stuart Chamberlain incorporated ideas of racial superiority with anti-Semitic notions and beliefs.
Their books and lectures often justified the civil, social and religious persecution of the Jews throughout recorded history.
It was first published in book form in Russia in 1905 and circulated continuously thereafter by individuals like Henry Ford and Houston Stuart Chamberlain.
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 The Second World War (Black Experience chapter 10 cont )
Here could be found the same kind of exploitation which Hitler used to explain the German defeat in the war.
These popular stereotypes were then joined to the teachings of Houston Stewart Chamberlain which had built on elements from biology, anthropology, sociology, and phrenology.
In his book Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, Chamberlain had developed them into a philosophy of world history which centered on the concepts of racial conflict.
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