Houston stewart chamberlain biography

British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (; 9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science.

His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, scientific racism, and Nordicism; he has been described as a "racialist writer".^[1] His best-known book, the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century),^[2] published 1899, became highly influential in the pan-GermanicVölkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy.

Indeed, Chamberlain has been referred to as "Hitler's John the Baptist".^[3]

Born in Hampshire, Chamberlain emigrated to Dresden in adulthood out of an adoration for composer Richard Wagner, and was later naturalised as a German citizen.

He married Eva von Bülow, Wagner's daughter,