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Ludwig Woltmann
Ludwig Woltmann
Born	February 18, 1871; Solingen, Westphalia, Germany
Died	January 30, 1907 (aged 35)
Occupation(s)	Zoologist, anthropologist

Ludwig Woltmann (born 18 February 1871 in Solingen; died 30 January 1907) was a German anthropologist, zoologist and neo-Kantian.^[1]^{[page needed]}^[2]

He studied medicine and philosophy, and obtained doctorates in the two fields from the University of Freiburg in 1896.^[3]

Ludwig Woltmann falls in the spiritual and ideological history of the 20th century with the racial theorists Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, in particular in terms of his racial theoretical thought. In his book Die Germanen und die Renaissance in Italien (1905), he argued that the emergence of the Renaissance in Italy was led not by the descendants of the Romans, but by the Germanic tribes who had subdued Italy during the Middle Ages. His ideas were mainly published by the journal Political-Anthropological Review (1902–1907) and in the book Political Anthropology written in 1903. This and two other of his books were published in a 1936 Otto Reche anthology.

Publications

1898: System of moral consciousness, with a special presentation of the ratio of the critical philosophy to Darwinism and Socialism
1899: The Darwinian theory and socialism. A contribution to the natural history of human society
1900: Historical materialism. Presentation and critique of the Marxist world outlook
1900: Pilgrimage. Sketches from Palestine
1901: The position of social democracy to religion
1903: Political Anthropology. A study on the influence of the theory of evolution on the doctrine of the political development of peoples
1903: Are the Goths under assumed in Italy?
1904: Racial psychology and cultural history
1904: The physical type of Immanuel Kant
1905: The Germans and the Renaissance in Italy
1905: Marxism and race theory
1905: Recent literature on racial theory
1906 : For the German question in the Italian Renaissance
1906: The Germans in Spain
1907: The Germans in France. A study on the influence of the Germanic race on the history and culture of France
1908: Klemm and Gobineau
1924: Youth poems

Literature

Wolfhard Hammer, The Life and Work of the Physician and Social Anthropologist Ludwig Woltmann. Univ. Diss, Mainz 1979.
Jürgen Mixing, The Political Philosophy of Ludwig Woltmann. In the Field of Tension between Kantianism's Historical Materialism and Social Darwinism, Bonn 1975
Sebastian Pella, The Social Darwinism-bred Theoretical Thinking in Ludwig Woltmann's Artwork, Political Anthropology, Bottrop 2009.

References

^ Gregor, A. James (2008). Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism. Stanford University Press.
^ Cantor, Geoffrey; Swetlitz, Marc, eds. (2006). Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. University of Chicago Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-226-09276-8.
^ Weindling, Paul (1993) [1989]. Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945. Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-521-42397-7.

External links

Works by or about Ludwig Woltmann at the Internet Archive
Literature by and about Ludwig Woltmann in the German National Library catalogue
"Woltmann, Ludwig 1871-1907". WorldCat.org.

[1] Gregor, A. James (2008). Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism. Stanford University Press.

[2] Cantor, Geoffrey; Swetlitz, Marc, eds. (2006). Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. University of Chicago Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-226-09276-8.

[Weindling1993-3] Weindling, Paul (1993) [1989]. Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945. Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-521-42397-7.

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