Julius Langbehn

Julius Langbehn (26 March 1851 – 30 April 1907) was a German national Romantic art historian and philosopher.

His father, a philologist, was dismissed from his position as the assistant principal at the local gymnasium shortly after Julius's birth, a result of a campaign to promote Danish nationalism in southern Denmark following the First Schleswig War and the Revolutions of 1848.

[1] After the war, Langbehn returned to Kiel to study chemistry, though in 1872 he transferred to the University of Munich with the help of a wealthy merchant.

He studied archaeology under Heinrich Brunn; his doctoral dissertation examined early Greek statues of Nike, the goddess of victory.

The poems, which were explicitly erotic, prompted the state prosecutor of Schleswig-Holstein to threaten to press charges.

[4] After departing Vienna, Langbehn traveled to Italy, southern France, Spain, and the Canary Islands in 1894.

[7] While Langbehn's vision did away with the bourgeois, proletarians, and the Junkers, he strongly opposed a classless society, stating that "equality is death.