Arthur de Gobineau 阿瑟·德·戈平瑙
(重定向自Gobineau)
Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau (14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who was best known by his contemporaries as a novelist, poet and travel writer but is today most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race and helping to legitimize racism through scientific racist theory and racial demography. Gorbineau was an elitist who, in the immediate aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848 wrote a 1400-page book, An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he claimed that aristocrats were superior to commoners and that they possessed more Aryan genetic traits due to lesser inbreeding with inferior races (e.g. Alpines and Mediterraneans).