Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (6 May 1823, Biebrich – 16 November 1897, Munich) was a German professor, journalist, novelist, and folklorist.
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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
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- 1823
- Died
- 1897
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- Kingdom of Prussia
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- journalist · university teacher · writer · cultural historian · folklorist · historian · composer · musicologist
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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (6 May 1823, Biebrich – 16 November 1897, Munich) was a German professor, journalist, novelist, and folklorist.
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Riehl was born in Biebrich in the Duchy of Nassau and died in Munich. Riehl was born into a settled middle-class background, was a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and later a curator of Bavarian antiquities.
Volkish thought
Volkish thought
According to George Mosse "Riehl's writings became normative for a large body of Volkish thought." Riehl desired a hierarchical society that patterned after the medieval estates. In Die bürgerliche Gesellschaft (Bourgeois Society) he accused those of Capitalist interest of "disturbing ancient customs and thus destroying the historicity of the Volk." Riehl argued that the 'working class' were the most respectable Volk, since they were best attuned to nature itself. Throughout his work, Riehl displays a strong conviction that the German people and land are intrinsically connected to one another. He also is considered the founder of the "German ethnographic Volkskunde" and drew many of his conclusions in his work from his personal experiences hiking throughout Germany.
Das Grab des deutschen Volkskundlers Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl und seiner Ehefrau Bertha geborene von Knoll auf dem Alten Nördlichen Friedhof München.
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1897
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl died in 1897.
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- 1.George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), p. 19.
- 2.George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), p. 19.
- 3.George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), p. 20.
- 4.George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), pp. 19–23.
- 5.Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 167.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- George Peabody Gooch History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (1913)
- Liulevicius, Vejas G. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Mosse, George L. The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.
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