Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
UK
Died29 August 2012(2012-08-29) (aged 59)[2]
OccupationHistorian, professor, writer
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (B.A.)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (D.Phil.)
SubjectHistory of Western esotericism
Notable worksThe Occult Roots of Nazism (1985)[3][4]
Black Sun (2001)[5][6]

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January 1953 – 29 August 2012) was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter, best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of Germany between the World Wars and Western esotericism.

Early life and education

Goodrick-Clarke was born in

Theosophy
at the end of the twentieth century.

Career

Goodrick-Clarke's Ph.D. dissertation was the basis for his most celebrated work, The Occult Roots of Nazism.[3] This book has been continually in print since its first publication in 1985, and has been translated into twelve languages. Later notable works include his well-regarded Paracelsus: Essential Readings, published in 1990, and Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, published in 2001.[5]

In his varied career, Goodrick-Clarke worked as a schoolmaster, banker, and a successful fundraiser for

Exeter University. As Professor of Western Esotericism and Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO), he developed a successful distance-learning M.A.
in Western Esotericism and successfully supervised a number of doctoral students. While at Exeter he wrote The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction, published in 2008.

In 1983, Goodrick-Clarke was one of the founder members of "The Society", an informal London-based association of professional and amateur scholars of

esotericism, including Ellic Howe, the publisher Michael Cox, John Hamill, and the scholar of Rosicrucianism, Christopher McIntosh. He was a founding member of both the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
and the Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE), in America. He was a faculty member of the New York Open Center from 1995.

Later life and death

Goodrick-Clarke was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO) within the College of Humanities at Exeter until his death on 29 August 2012.

Bibliography

Contributed

See also

References

  1. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
  2. ^ In memoriam Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 1953–2012 Archived 7 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-8147-3054-X
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  4. ^ Obituary. Fall 2012. p. 2. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^
    LCCN 2001004429
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  6. S2CID 153423661
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  7. ^ a b "Obituary". The Times. 11 October 2012.

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