houston stewart chamberlain

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Definition of houston stewart chamberlain in English English dictionary

born Sept. 9, 1855, Southsea, Hampshire, Eng. died Jan. 9, 1927, Bayreuth, Ger. British-born Germanophile writer. An admirer of Richard Wagner, he wrote a biography of the composer and several books on his works (1892-95) and later married Wagner's daughter. In his Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (2 vol., 1899), he presented a broad but biased analysis of European culture and proclaimed the racial and cultural superiority of the so-called Aryan element in European culture. His theories, which owed much to the writings of Joseph Arthur, count de Gobineau, influenced German nationalist thought, particularly Adolf Hitler's National Socialist movement

Hyphenation

Hous·ton Stew·art cham·ber·lain

Turkish pronunciation

hyustın stuırt çeymbırlın

Pronunciation

/ˈhyo͞ostən ˈsto͞oərt ˈʧāmbərlən/ /ˈhjuːstən ˈstuːɜrt ˈʧeɪmbɜrlən/