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	Johann Jakob Bachofen Summary
		Johann Jakob Bachofen, Swiss jurist, cultural anthropologist, and philosopher of history, studied philology, history, and law at the universities of Basel, Berlin (under Friedrich Karl von Savigny), and Göttingen.
		According to Bachofen it was the function of the woman and mother to preserve and uphold these nonrational historical forces and thus to exercise a uniting influence, whereas man, representing the progressive and rational forces, exercised a dividing influence over the development of humankind.
		Bachofen was charged with introducing rather fanciful and value-loaded notions into his theory and with confusing matrilineal descent with a matriarchate.
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	Matriarchy in J.J. Bachofen's Work
		Bachofen's interpretation of the inner history of Rome on the basis of its myths and legends is one of the most convincing examples of the importance and of the fertility of such a method.
		Bachofen noted that, against the substratum of a more ancient world, suffused with a 'civilisation of the Mother', the opposite civilisation, virile and paternal, developed to supplant and defeat it, even though, at a later point, at the closing of a cycle, at least in some countries, it was swept away again.
		Bachofen, at some points in his works, sensed the existence of cyclical laws, by force of which, at the end of a given development, some involutive and degenerative forms almost represent a return of primitive stages left behind by the whole development.
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Swiss anthropologist and sociologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World.
		Bachofen assembled documentation meant to demonstrate that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum and he drew upon Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, North Africa, and Spain.
		Bachofen's conclusions about archaic matriarchy still echo today.
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Swiss Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 — 1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World.
		Bachofen assembled documentation meant to demonstrate that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum and he drew upon Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, North Africa, and Spain.
		Bachofen's conclusions about archaic matriarchy still echo today.
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	Bachofen, Johann Jakob - MSN Encarta
		Bachofen put forth a matrilineal scheme of social evolution, which was propounded in 1861 in his work Das Mutterrecht (Matriarchal Law) (see Matrilineage).
		Born in Basel, Switzerland, Bachofen was appointed professor of Roman law at Basel in 1841, and in 1844 he became Appellationsrat (appeals judge) in the same city.
		Bachofen reasoned that important factors in this development were women's fundamental religiosity and the cult of a female deity.
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen - Encyclopedia.com
		Johann Jakob Bachofen, 1815-87, Swiss legal historian and antiquarian.
		Bachofen studied in Berlin, Göttingen, Paris, and Cambridge, and accepted only honorary offices in order to safeguard his independence.
		In 1861, Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887), a law professor at...
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	Bachofen Johann Jakob: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bachofen studied in Berlin, GÃ¶ttingen, Paris, and Cambridge, and accepted only honorary offices in order to safeguard his independence.
		Bachofens Mutterrecht, Hesses Demian Und Der Verfall Der Vatermacht
		In 1861 the Swiss jurist and writer Johann Jakob Bachofen postulated that the earliest human civilizations were matriarchies.
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	Bachofen Johann Jakob - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bachofen, Johann Jakob (1815-1887), Swiss jurist and student of classical antiquity.
		Bachofen put forth a matrilineal scheme of social evolution,...
		Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898), Swiss mathematician and physicist, born in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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	Bachofen, Johann Jakob biography - S9.com
		1815 - Johann Jakob Bachofen was born in Basel, Switzerland.
		Bachofen described his way of life in following word: In the deciding moments of life we rarely act in free self-determination.
		A pioneer of the idea of a transcendental mythical content present in all societies, Bachofen was deeply concerned with the inner life and how it is expressed in symbolic terms...
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	An English Translation of Bachofen’s Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861): A Study of the Religious and Juridical ...
		Mutterrecht (Mother Right) by Johann Jakob Bachofen was the seminal document of the 19th century concerning the role of women in ancient societies.
		Bachofen documented that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decency in societies including Lycia, Crete, Greece, Egypt, India, Central Asia, Northern Africa, and Spain.
		Bachofen’s theory of cultural evolution incited a virtual ‘mother-mania’ among ethnologists, social philosophers, and even writers, among them Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Engels, Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Johann Jakob Bachofen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Bachofen's conclusions about archaic (A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line) matriarchy still echo today.
		that since women, as mothers, were the only parents of the younger generation that were known with certainty, they held a position of such high respect and honor that it became the foundation, in Bachofen's conception, of a regular rule of women (gynaecocracy);
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bachofen was a professor of the history of Roman law at the University of Basel (1841–45) and also a judge of the Basel criminal court (1842–66).
		He was one of the founders of projective geometry, a branch of mathematics dealing with the relationships between geometric figures and their projected images on a surface or line.
		The German novelist Jakob Wassermann is frequently compared to Fedor Dostoevski in both his moral fervor and his tendency toward sensationalism.
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen
		It must have been his unbreakable conviction that his theory must be right, otherwise he would not have risked to lose his high reputation and his good name as respectable judge.
		Johann Jakob Bachofen was the first one who fought for the acceptance of the matriarchy as historical fact.
		The ancestors of the father had been merchants throughout but the family of Bachofen's mother, the highly respected Merian family, had brought forth many politicians and scholars.
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	H-Net Review: Angela Schwarz on Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study of Unseasonable ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bachofen considered the work of these philologists with contempt, their work of discovering, describing, classifying.
		It is fascinating to follow Gossman unravelling the effects of Bachofen's early disappointment in his criticism of modern historiography and modern life.
		There are many parallels between the more conservative Bachofen and Jacob Burckhardt, whose conceptions of history, religion, and art are presented and analyzed in the most extensive part of the monograph.
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	Dennis G. Shulman \| Samples of Published Articles
		The earliest study of this question was done in 1861 by Johann Jakob Bachofen (1967).
		However, Bamberger (1974), in her discussion of Bachofen's study, concludes that he confused the myth and the historical reality of matriarchy.
		Bachofen, J.J. Myth, religion and mother right: Selected writings of Johann Jakob Bachofen.
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		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Balmer Johann Jakob
		Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898), Swiss mathematician and physicist, born in Lausanne.
		Although most of the energy of the spectrum of sodium vapour is concentrated in the two D lines, numerous other faint lines are present in the...
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	Vol Avec les Oies, a long and winding road
		Bachofen advocated the historicity of myth; mythic material is continuously revised or "contaminated" in reflection of our existence.
		His own surrounding time: colonialism, extensive collection of data, diligent translation, makes a great spread of material, and many are inspired, each one in his town, and each one in his direction.
		In the transformations of myth Bachofen discerns three stages: from a hetæran, over a matriarchal, where marriage is instituted, to a patriarchal, that includes his own time.
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen Biography (1815–87) Online Encyclopedia Article About Johann Jakob Bachofen Biography ...
		Johann Jakob Bachofen Biography (1815–87) Online Encyclopedia Article About Johann Jakob Bachofen Biography (1815–87)
		Professor of Roman law at Basel University (1841–5), he is known for his work on the theory of matriarchy, Das Mutterrecht (1841).
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	Johann Jakob Bachofen
		as veranlasste vor ungefähr 150 Jahren den Schweizer Johann Jakob Bachofen, aus einer der vornehmsten Familien der Stadt Basel stammend, mit einer für das 19.
		Bachofen fasste seinen Weg in folgende Worte: In den entscheidenden Augenblicken unseres Lebens handeln wir selten mit freier Selbstbestimmung.
		Die Werke Johann Jakob Bachofens in ungekürzter Originalversion erhält man über den Verlag Schwabe.
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	JAKOB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Search the JAKOB Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the JAKOB Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
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	AllRefer.com - Johann Jakob Bachofen (Sociology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Johann Jakob Bachofen[bAkO´fun] Pronunciation Key, 1815–87, Swiss legal historian and antiquarian.
		Bachofen studied in Berlin, GOttingen, Paris, and Cambridge, and accepted only honorary offices in order to safeguard his independence.
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	AbeBooks: Search Results - Bachofen and Das Mutterrecht
		Johann Jakob Bachofen was a prolific writer on art, Roman Law and Greek antiquity, but his fame rests on the present work.
		In his investigations Bachofen found numerous myths and reports of a very early matriarchate, especially of the descent of name and property in the maternal line.
		Attempting to explain its origin he collected and compared with amazing persistence all the relevant material in the writings of the ancients.
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	The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Its originator in the modern academy was the great Swiss philologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887).
		In his monumental work "Mutterrecht und Urreligion," first published in 1926, Bachofen declared what he called "mother-right," or the sanctity of matriarchal privilege, to be the origin of all culture.
		Indeed, his minute study of Roman funerary art in the 1840s persuaded Bachofen that Roman law itself -- that supposed bastion of Western patriarchy -- was characterized by matriarchal origins.
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	Alphabetical List of Works
		Caprice-Etude, op.36 - Johann Carl Eschmann 1826 - 1882)
		Drittes Morgen-Lied - Johann Jakob Walder (1750-1817) / Johann Heinrich Egli (1742-1810)
		Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV 904 - Johann Sebastian Bach
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	Myth, Religion and Mother Right: Selected Writings of Johann Jakob Bachofen
		The Swiss thinker J.J. Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or "mother right," but that concept is only a small part of his contribution to our understanding of cultural history.
		A pioneer of the idea of a transcendent mythical content present in all societies, Bachofen was deeply concerned with the inner life and how it is expressed in symbolic terms.
		This is an important book on the meaning of goddesses and the feminine in Greece, Rome, and the ancient world.
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	Modern Matriarchal Studies
		Matriarchal Studies started as early as 140 years ago with the pioneering work of Johann Jakob Bachofen's "The Mother Right" (1861), but it did not meet with an appreciative reception
		This situation is partly due to the incorrect translation of Bachofen's Greek term "gynaikokratie," or "rule by women," a term which has been confused with the term "matriarchy." "Rule by women" has never existed in the patriarchal sense of "rule," but matriarchies have existed, in various forms, over very long periods of human history.
		Not all the scholars gathered here call this form of society by the same name; it is variously referred to as "matrifocal, matristic, matricentric or gylanic" society.
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		An English Translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861) Study Of The Religious And Juridical Aspects Of Gyneecocracy In The Ancient World; "Elis", "The Epizephyrian Locrians", and "Lesbos (ISBN: 0773462988)
		An English Translation of Bachofen's Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861: A Study of the Religious and Juridical Aspects of Gynecocracy in the Ancient World (ISBN: 0773466045)
		Bachofen, J J. Bookseller: Der ANTIQUAR in LAHR, Werner Engelmann
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		Indeed, the myth of matriarchal prehistory is not a feminist creation, in spite of the aggressively feminist spin it has carried over the past twenty-five years.
		Since the myth was revived from classical Greek sources in 1861 by Johann Jakob Bachofen, it has had—at best—a very mixed record where feminism is concerned.
		The majority of men who championed the myth of matriarchal prehistory during its first century (and they have mostly been men) have regarded patriarchy as an evolutionary advance over prehistoric matriarchies, in spite of some lingering nostalgia for women's equality or beneficent rule.
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	Biblio: (ISBN: 0691017972) Myth, Religion, and Mother Right by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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		The central part is the investigation of the religious and juridical character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World- a theme that is inseparably linked with the name of Bachofen.
		His thought that 'the progress from the maternal to the parental conception of man forms the most important turning point in the history of the relations between the sexes' is still echoing in anthropology.".
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