Henry Stephens Salt

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Henry Stephens Salt

Henry Stephens Salt ( September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939 ) was a British reformer. He was a co-founder of the Humanitarian League , which had existed since 1891 , which imposed a common humanitarian principle on various liberation movements in Edwardian England and demanded it. He and the other founders John Galsworthy , Colonel WL Blenkinsop Coulson and Edward Carpenter opposed beatings and the death penalty, hunting as a sport and animal experiments (then: vivisection ). You advocated broad vegetarianism . Notable supporters include Keir Hardie , Thomas Hardy , George Bernard Shaw , Bertram Lloyd and Christabel Pankhurst . The league was dissolved in 1920.

Life

Salt was born the son of a colonel in India. As a child he moved with his family to England, where he was taught at Eton College . In 1875 he received his doctorate in Cambridge. Salt then taught classical music in Eton. He married Catherine (Kate) Joynes, with whom he retired in 1884 to work politically and journalistically.

reception

His work A Plea for Vegetarianism (1886) influenced Mahatma Gandhi , who wrote of it: "I read Salt's book from cover to cover and was very impressed by it. From the moment I read this book I can say that I was a vegetarian of my own choosing to have been. " Gandhi attributed his views on civil disobedience not only to Henry Thoreau but also to Salt. Salt is considered a forerunner by the modern animal liberation movement . The author Matthias Rude writes: "For Salt, the liberation of humans and animals are inextricably linked, one is impossible without the other. In the autobiography of the Englishman, which bears the ironic title Seventy Years among Savages (1931), is called it: 'The emancipation of people from cruelty and injustice will, in due course, also result in the liberation of animals. The two reforms are inextricably linked and neither can be fully implemented on its own.' "

Works (selection)

literature

  • Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 . Reaction Books, 1998. ISBN 1861890141
  • Andreas Flury: The moral status of animals: Henry Salt, Peter Singer and Tom Regan . Alber, Freiburg Breisgau; Munich 1999, ISBN 3-495-47879-5 .
  • Stephen; W / Pref by Bernard Shaw Winsten: Salt and his Circle . Hutchinson & Company, 1976.
  • George Hendrick: Henry Salt: Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters , 1st Edition. 1st edition, University of Illinois Press, Aug. 1, 1977, ISBN 0252006119 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Rude: Antispeciesism. The liberation of humans and animals in the animal rights movement and the left . Butterfly publishing house, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-89657-670-5 , p. 94 f .
personal data
SURNAME Salt, Henry Stephens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English philosopher and social reformer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1851
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1939