At the age of eleven he was sent to Cheltenham College, an English boarding school that produced many Army and Navy officers. This constant moving about made it hard for Chamberlain to form lasting friendships.Ĭhamberlain's education began at a lycée in Versailles and continued mostly in continental Europe, but his father had planned a military career for his son. Chamberlain's poor health frequently led him to being sent to the warmer climates of Spain and Italy for the winter. His elder brother was Japanologist and Tokyo Imperial University professor Basil Hall Chamberlain. His mother, Eliza Jane, daughter of Captain Basil Hall, RN, died before he was a year old, leading to his being brought up by his grandmother in France. Houston Stewart Chamberlain was born in Southsea, Hampshire, England, the son of Rear Admiral William Charles Chamberlain, RN. He married Eva von Bülow, Wagner's daughter, in December 1908, twenty-five years after Wagner's death. īorn in Hampshire, Chamberlain emigrated to Dresden in adulthood out of an adoration for composer Richard Wagner, and was later naturalised as a German citizen. Indeed, Chamberlain has been referred to as "Hitler's John the Baptist". His best-known book, the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ( The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), published 1899, became highly influential in the pan-Germanic Völkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, and scientific racism and he has been described as a "racialist writer". Houston Stewart Chamberlain ( / ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər l ɪ n/ 9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British-German philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science.
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