Home › Authors › Jakob Wilhelm Hauer
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer Quotes
1881–1962 Germany
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (4 April 1881 in Ditzingen, Württemberg – 18 February 1962 in Tübingen) was a German Indologist and religious studies writer. He was the founder of the German Faith Movement.
Germany Academics Non-fiction authors Politicians Random Jakob Wilhelm Hauer quote
6 quotes
Research in comparative religion has shown that the oldest, religious documents of ancient India point back to an Ur-Germanic age.
Today, it is considered settled that the racial traits of the Indo-Aryans link them historically to that race which has had the definitive influence in the Indo-Germanic world, the northern [race].
In the two burning centers [Brennpunktsgebieten] of this great expanse, in Indo-Arya and in Germania, we find, even in the religious and spiritual attitudes and formations, an unmistakable kinship, one that extends all the way to their roots.
Even today one finds overall in the realm of the Indo-Aryans and their anthropological and geographical surroundings blond and blue-eyed types, so that we may assume that the dark-haired and dark-eyed ‘north Indians’ became darker partly under the influence of the climate [and] partly through admixture with the dark-skinned pre-Aryan inhabitants of ancient India.
So much at least is clear, that Indo-Arya remained extensively under the influence of northern blood and stands even today, albeit in pronounced admixture with non-Aryan elements.
If there is something characteristic of the northern spirit, it is the extraordinary vigor that courses through it. . . . Ever again, the Indo-Germanic community has been forced to the most intensive activity in a struggle for the unity of forces that threaten to pull apart.
Topics Jakob Wilhelm Hauer is quoted on