Émile-Louis Burnouf

Émile-Louis Burnouf (French: [emil.lwi byʁnuf]; 26 August 1821, in Valognes – January 1907, in Paris) was a leading nineteenth-century Orientalist and racialist author of Aryanism.

Science has proved that the original tendency of the Aryan peoples is pantheism, while monotheism proper is the constant doctrine of Semitic populations.

The whole of Europe is at once Aryan and Christian; that is to say pantheistic by its origin and natural dispositions, but accustomed to admit the dogma of creation from a Semitic influence.

He believed that "real Semites" have smaller brains than Aryans: A real Semite has smooth hair with curly ends, a strongly hooked nose, fleshy, projecting lips, massive extremities, thin calves and flat feet… His growth is very rapid, and at fifteen or sixteen it is over.

The internal organ is permitted to continue its evolution and transformations up until the very last day of life by means of the never-changing flexibility of the skull bone.

Daguerreotype of the first members of the French School at Athens , 1848. Burnouf is the second from left in the back row