Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 - October 13, 1882) was a French aristocrat who became famous for advocating White Supremacy and developing the theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855). July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ... Aryan is an English word derived from the Indo-Aryan Vedic Sanskrit and Iranian Avestan terms ari-, arya-, ārya-, and/or the extended form aryāna-. The Old Persian ariya- is a cognate as well. ... The master race (German: Herrenrasse, Herrenvolk) is a concept in Nazi ideology, which holds that the Germanic and Nordic people represent an ideal and pure race. It derives from nineteenth century racial theory, which posited a hierarchy of races placing African Bushmen and Indigenous Australians at the bottom of the... An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races by Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau is an early and significant work defining the concept of Scientific racism and White supremacy. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Gobineau was a successful diplomat whose career in Iran influenced the development of his ideas. He came to believe that race created culture, arguing that that distinctions between the three "black", "white", and "yellow" races are natural barriers, and that race-mixing breaks those barriers and leads to chaos. Gobineau's tripartite division of human populations corresponds to the categories of Negroid {black}, Caucasoid {white}, and Mongoloid {yellow}. He believed that the white race is superior to the others and that it corresponds to the ancient Indo-European culture also known as "Aryan". This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Validity of human races. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Culture The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Negroid Skull Negroid is an anthropological term describing the racial classification of humans indigenous to Africa, where they predominate in most regions of the continent, save for portions of North Africa. ... Typical Caucasoid Skull Caucasoid is a racial classification usually used as part of a system also including Australoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, and sometimes others such as Capoid. ... A portrait of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan; the Mongolians, for which the term Mongoloid was named after, are an example of the prototype Northern Mongoloid. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies Indo-European is originally a linguistic term, referring to the Indo-European language family. ...

In Gobineau's view the development of empires was ultimately destructive to the "superior" races that created them, since they led to the mixing of distinct races, which led to the 'degeneration' of the superior races. He called this process Semiticization, because of his belief that Semitic peoples were a product of the Middle-Eastern cross-over between the otherwise distinct three races. Because he believed Semitic peoples to be a cross between white, black, and yellow racial elements, Gobineau considered Arabs and Jews to be at the bottom of the racial ladder, in contrast to later racial theorists such as Madison Grant, who believed black Negroids to be the most primitive race. Gobineau also considered Nordic peoples to be the "purest" and fairest whites, and so to be superior to other Caucasians, laying the foundations for the Nordic theory. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Semiticization is a pseudoscientific concept found in the writings of some racial theorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Madison Grant in the early 1920s. ... The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ... Madison Grants map, from 1916, charting the distribution of the European races, with Nordic genetic influence shown in bright red. ...

He is also known to Bahá'is as the person who obtained the only complete manuscript of the early history of the Bábí religious movement of Persia, written by Hâjji Mirza Jân of Kashan who was put to death by the Persian authorities in c.1852. The manuscript is now in the public library: the Bibliothèque nationale at Paris. ... The room where The Báb declared His mission on May 23, 1844 in His house in Shiraz. ... The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The new buildings of the library. ... The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ...

Gobineau also wrote novels, notably Les Pléiades (1874). His study La Renaissance (1877) was also admired in his day. Both of these works strongly expressed his reactionary aristocratic politics, and his hatred of democratic mass culture. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Reactionary (or reactionist) is a political epithet typically applied to conservatism. ...

Gobineau believed himself to be the descendant of Nordic Vikings and Condottieri. The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ... Condottieri (singular condottiere) were mercenary leaders employed by Italian city-states from the late Middle Ages until the mid-sixteenth century. ...