Osman Bey

This article deals with the anti-Semitic publicist; on the Turkish archaeologist and artist, see Osman Hamdi Bey . For other namesake see also Osman Pascha

Osman (Seify) Bey (actually Frederick Millingen , Milligen in some sources , other pseudonyms Wladimir Andrejewitsch , Kıbrıslı Zade Binbaşı , * 1836 in Constantinople , † 1901 (?) In Nice ) was an anti-Semitic publicist of the 19th century.

Live and act

Osman Bey's biography is uncertain; Benz et al. (2009) said he was the son of an English doctor and grew up in Italy, first converted to Islam in Turkey and then to the Orthodox Church in Russia, and later worked as an impostor throughout Europe . According to other sources, it is said to come from Serbia. The Dictionary of National Biography states with reluctance ("slightly inaccurate") that Millingen / Osman-Bey is the son of the English doctor and writer Julius Michael Millingen (1800–1878), who was Lord Byron's personal doctor in Greece .

In particular, the pamphlets conquest ... and revelations ... convey anti-Semitic conspiracy theories , which from today's perspective are absurd, but had great success at the time of their creation, were read in the Russian government and the brutally anti-Semitic attitude of Alexander III. and even promoted Nicholas II .

The Conquest of the World by the Jews was the first book to propagate the idea of ​​a Jewish world conspiracy worldwide; It was probably first published in German in 1873 and was translated into French, Russian, English, Polish and Italian by 1880.

Trivia

Osman Bey appears as a minor character in Umberto Eco's novel The Cemetery in Prague .

Fonts (selection)

• La Turquie sous la règne d'Abdul-Aziz. (Paris, 1868)
• Wild life among the coords. (London, 1870)
• On the Koords , in: Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, 1870, pp. 175-181
• The conquest of the world by the Jews: an attempt at past and present. Basel: Krüst 1873
• Revelations about the murder of Alexander II (Bern 1886)
• Les Femmes en Turquie . Paris: Lévy 1878
• The conquest of the world by the Jews. Revelations about the Universal Israelite Alliance : Lorch 1922

literature

• Magnus Brechtken : Osman Bey. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present . Vol. 2/2: People L – Z. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 608f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Osman-Bey in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pammer Leopold: Hitler and his models . tredition,, ISBN 978-3-86850-002-8 , p. 185.
2. ↑ Julius Michael Millingen. Entry in the Dictionary of National Biography , Sidney Lee (ed.), Elder Smith & Co., London 1894, vol. 37 Masquerier-Millyng, p. 440
3. ^ Pierre-André Taguieff : La foire aux illuminés . Fayard / Mille et une nuits, November 16, 2005, ISBN 978-2-7555-0394-4 , p. 161.
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 22, 2014)