Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick -Clarke ( born January 15, 1953 in Lincoln, † 29 August 2012) was a British scholar of comparative religion. He was director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism ( EXESESO ) and holder of the Chair "Western esotericism " at the University of Exeter.
Life
Nicholas Goodrick -Clarke studied German literature, cultural history, and economics and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 from the University of Bristol. He received his doctorate in 1982 with Norman Cohn, Bryan R. Wilson and Peter Pulzer at the University of Oxford. From 1978 to 1982 he was a teacher in Perth (Scotland ), Schelkingen and Cambridge. From 1982 to 1985 he worked as a manager at Chase Manhattan Bank in London. Since 1985, Goodrick -Clarke was the author and university professor.
His book The Occult Roots of Nazism, based on his dissertation and has been translated into six languages , is the standard work on the ariosophy the early 20th century and its relation to National Socialism.
Goodrick -Clarke was a member of the Society of Authors in Scientific & Medical Network, Senior Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Vice - Chairman of the Keston Institute ( Oxford) and member of the board of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism ( ESSWE ). In addition, he was editor of the book series Essential Readings and Western Esoteric Masters.
Goodrick -Clarke lived in Brighton and was since 1985 with Clare Goodrick - Clarke, who teaches in Exeter at the same institute, married. He died in 2012 at the age of 59 after a short illness.
Publications
- The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935. Aquarian Press, Wellingborough 1985; NYU Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8147-3060-4. The Occult Roots of Nazism. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 1997, ISBN 3-7020-0795-4; Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-48-7.
- In the Shadow of the Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of demarcation. Marix, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-86539-185-8.