Édouard Drumont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Édouard Drumont

French journalist and writer, founder of the Antisemitic League of France

Date of Birth: 03-May-1844

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1917

Profession: writer, politician, journalist, conspiracy theorist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer.
He initiated the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole.
After spending years of research, he synthesized three major types of antisemitism.
The first type was traditional Catholic attitudes toward the alien "Christ killers" augmented by vehement antipathy toward the French Revolution.
The second type was hostility toward capitalism.
The third type was so-called scientific racism, based on the argument that races have fixed characteristics, and asserting that Jews have negative characteristics.
Drumont's biographer, Grégoire Kauffmann, places Drumont within the counter-revolutionary tradition of Louis Veuillot, Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet, and anti-modern Catholicism.
Socialist leader Jean Jaurès stated that "all the ideas and arguments of Drumont were taken from certain clerical opponents of the French Revolution.