William Barnes Steveni

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James William Barnes Steveni (* 1859 or 1860 in Kingston upon Hull , Great Britain , † 1944 in Bromsgrove , Great Britain ) was a British journalist and writer.

Works about Russia

From 1887 he taught as an English professor in the Russian capital Petersburg . B. met Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy . As a correspondent for the London Daily Chronicle in Petersburg (from 1914 Petrograd ), he wrote several books from 1892 to 1917 on political, military, social, cultural, ethnological and historical aspects of the situation in Russia on the eve of the First World War and the revolution .

Works about Sweden

Unknown Sweden contains bizarre and controversial claims

In works about Scandinavia and Sweden, he repeatedly emphasized his supposedly Scandinavian ancestry and mostly took a pro-Swedish or anti-Danish / anti-Norwegian position on political, historical and ethnological aspects. His works contain numerous (in dialect studies, place names compare and skull studies based) disputed claims and racialist beliefs in Unknown Sweden for. B.

  • the southern Swedish Skåne was already settled 10,000 to 50,000 years before our era and was not only the original home of all Germanic or "Aryan" peoples, but also that of the peoples of Atlantis
  • the Near Eastern Baal cult comes from Scandinavia
  • the Odin following Asen were Asians (Hun-Turkish peoples) have been
  • Beowulf came from Bohuslän
  • the ancient Cimbri were not Germanic, but Germanized Celts; their homeland is said not to have been the Cimbrian Peninsula ( Jutland ), but Skåne; the Cimbri were one of the bronzeitlichen Sea Peoples have been
  • the Celts (coming from Eastern Europe and North Asia) immigrated to Skåne via the Åland Islands, mixed with the Germanic peoples there and spread from there to northwestern Europe
  • Despite the centuries-old Danish "occupation", Schonen was always originally Swedish
  • Original home of the Danes did not spare, but Danmark in Uppland been
  • the Norman Rollo was neither a Dane nor a Norwegian, but actually a Swede (from Skåne)
  • the residents of East Yorkshire (especially those in Holderness ) are not descendants of Danish Vikings, but descendants of Swedish Vikings (from Uppland )
  • Swedish Vikings did not appear on the English coasts until the 8th, but as early as the 3rd century, and in some cases they were confused with the first Saxons

family

Temporarily back in Great Britain, he married Bessie Winifred Jerman Lulham (1875–1955) in 1901, who gave birth to their son William Oscar Steveni (1904–1968).

Publications (selection)

  • Through Famine-Stricken Russia (1892)
  • The Scandinavian Question (1905)
  • Things seen in Russia (1913)
  • Petrograd, past and present (1914)
  • The Russian army from within (1914)
  • Things seen in Sweden (1915)
  • How to do business with Russia; hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia (1917)
  • Europe's Great Calamity: The Russian Famine, An Appeal for the Russian Peasant (1922)
  • Unknown Sweden (1925)

Web links

Commons : William Barnes Steveni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b : Michael Skinner: What we did for the Russians , page 186ff, Lulu, Garamond 2008
  2. ↑ a b c Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: My life , page 781. Ottawa 2010
  3. ↑ a b The Online Books Page : William Barnes Steveni
  4. ↑ a b c d rellyseeker.nz: James William Barnes STEVENI
  5. ↑ St. Petersburg 1900
personal data
SURNAME Steveni, William Barnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steveni, James William Barnes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1859 or 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Hull , UK
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Bromsgrove , UK