Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National Socialist (Nazi) ideology. An influential and controversial public thinker, he invoked an authentic Germanness that encompassed religion and a national ethos to counter the threat posed by the Jews and liberalism. His appeals to a "secret Germany" eventually resonated with modern conservative revolutionaries and notable antisemites from Julius Langbehn and Houston Stewart Chamberlain to Alfred Rosenberg and Adolf Hitler himself.
- ISBN10 1584657553
- ISBN13 9781584657552
- Publish Date 11 July 2013
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 16 August 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Brandeis University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English