Chamberlain, Houston Stewart

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born German author of books on political philosophy, natural science and the German composer Richard Wagner; he is described in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as a "racialist writer."[1] He later became a German citizen. In December 1908, twenty-five years after Wagner's death, Chamberlain married Wagner's daughter, Eva von Bulow. Chamberlain's two-volume book, Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century)[2], published in 1899, became one of the many reference...