Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (born January 15, 1953 in Lincoln , † August 29, 2012 ) was a British historian and religious scholar . He was Director of the Exeter Center for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO) and Chair of Western Esotericism at the University of Exeter .

Life

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke studied German , cultural history and economics and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1974 from the University of Bristol . He received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1982 with Norman Cohn , Bryan R. Wilson and Peter Pulzer . From 1978 to 1982 he was a teacher in Perth (Scotland) , Schelklingen and Cambridge . From 1982 to 1985 he worked as a manager at Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

His book The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985), based on his dissertation and translated into twelve languages, is the standard work on the ariosophy of the early 20th century and its relation to National Socialism .

As a scientist, Goodrick-Clarke only found employment as a research fellow at the University of Lampeter in Wales in 2002 . In 2005 he received a professorship at the University of Exeter, which he held until his death.

Goodrick-Clarke was a member of the Society of Authors , Scientific & Medical Network , Senior Fellow of St Edmund Hall , Vice-Chairman of the Keston Institute (Oxford) and a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) . He was also the editor of the Essential Readings and Western Esoteric Masters book series .

Goodrick-Clarke lived in Brighton and was married to Clare Goodrick-Clarke, who teaches at the same institute in Exeter, since 1985. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2012 at the age of 59 .

Publications

• The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935. Aquarian Press, Wellingborough 1985; NYU Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8147-3060-4 .
  • The Occult Roots of National Socialism. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1997, ISBN 3-7020-0795-4 ; Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-48-7 .
• Enchanted City. Arthur Make and Locality: Scenes from His Early London Years, 1880-85. Caermaen Press, London 1987, ISBN 0-948482-03-6 .
• Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi , the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. NYU Press, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8147-3110-4 .
• Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. NYU Press, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8147-3124-4 .
  • In the shadow of the black sun: Aryan cults, esoteric National Socialism and the politics of demarcation . Marix, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-86539-185-8 .
• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky . North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2004, ISBN 1-55643-457-X . ( Western Esoteric Masters Series ).
• Paracelsus : Essential Readings. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2005, ISBN 1-55643-316-6 .
• GRS Mead and the Gnostic Quest. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 2005, ISBN 1-55643-572-X .
• The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-532099-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the portal of the Exeter Center for the Study of Esotericism (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hans Thomas Hakl : In memory of Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke . In: Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 12 , pp. 331–336 (2012), here p. 332. ( PDF )