BACHOFEN, JOHANN JAKOB

bäkōˈfən, 1815–87, Swiss legal historian and antiquarian. Bachofen studied in Berlin, Göttingen, Paris, and Cambridge, and accepted only honorary offices in order to safeguard his independence. He analyzed myths and archaeological artifacts in an attempt to reconstruct the spiritual and social worlds of ancient societies. He postulated an evolutionary sequence of symbolical, mythical, and logical modes of thought. He also demonstrated that marriage, family, and kinship take on different forms in different societies, and assumed an evolutionary sequence of primitive promiscuity, leading to matriarchal, and finally patriarchal forms of social organization. See matriarchy. Bachofen's selected writings are included in Myth, Religion and Mother Right (1967).

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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
Book by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Dictionaries, German Literature--Dictionaries, German Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Women Authors, German--Biography--Dictionaries
...the influence of J. J. Bachofens speculations about matriarchal...all-female performance of Johann Wolf gang Goethe s...derive pseudonyms Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen...alchemy, the works of Jakob Bohme, and the German...humorous purposes e.g., Johann Wolfgang Goethes " Doktoren...
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A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847
Book by Joachim Remak; Westview, 1993
Subjects: Dufour, Guillaume-Henri--1787-1875--Military leadership, Fribourg (Switzerland : Canton)--History, Switzerland--Church history--19th century, Switzerland--History--Sonderbund, 1845-1847
...veteran of the raid, Jakob Senn of Solothurn...SOLDIER, MAGISTRATE: JOHANN ULRICH OCHSENBEIN...second envoy to the Diet, Johann Rudolf Schneider, put...literate 6 farmer named Jakob Muller, and he told his...distinguished legal scholars, Johann Bluntschli, in 1844...
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The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
Book by Henri F. Ellenberger; Basic Books, 1970
Subjects: Psychiatry--History, Psychoanalysis--History
...Johann Jakob Bachofen...moment of their existence. 26 Johann Christoph Blumhardt 1805-1880...superstition. The background of Johann Christoph Blumhardt is much better...
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A Reference Companion to the History of Abnormal Psychology - Vol. 2
Book by John G. Howells, M. Livia Osborn; Greenwood Press, 1984
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological--Early Works To 1900--Miscellanea, Psychology, Pathological--Miscellanea
...Bibliography: Hurry J. B. 1928. Imhotep . MENDEL, GREGOR JOHANN 1822-1884 . An Austrian biologist and abbot in the Order...in part on the ideas of Jean Itard q.v. . In Switzerland, Jakob Guggenbuhl q.v. founded the Abendberg Institution q.v...
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German History: Some New German Views
Book by Hans Kohn; George Allen & Unwin, 1954
Subjects: Germany--History, Germany--History--Historigraphy
...scher Merkur , December 16, 1950, and Johann Albrecht von Rantzau, " Individualitatsprinzip...foremost German historians of the time, Johann Friedrich Bohmer 1795- 1863 , Georg...of popular German historiography, Johannes Haller Die Epochen der deutschen Geschichte...
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Bachofens Mutterrecht, Hesses Demian Und Der Verfall Der Vatermacht
Journal article by Frederick Alfred Lubich; Germanic Review, Vol. 65, 1990
Subjects: Germanic Philology
...kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Johann Jakob Bachofens bahnbrechendem Werk Das Mutterrecht...Zitiert wird nach der Ausgabe Johann Jakob Bachofen, Das Mutterrecht , in Gesammelte...Romantiker und Mythologe Johann Jakob Bachofen", S.12ff. 29. Zu den...
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The Optimistic Thought Experiment
Journal article by Peter Thiel; Policy Review, 2008
Subjects: Globalization--Analysis, Globalization--Forecasts and trends
...knowledge that the city of Rome would be eternal. Johann Jakob Bachofen, "The Myth of Tanaquil," in Myth, Religion and Mother Right: Selected Writings of Johann Jakob Bachofen, trans. Ralph Manheim (Princeton University Press...
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Imagining Matriarchy: "Kingdoms of Women" in Tang China
Journal article by Jennifer W. Jay; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996
Subjects: China--Social aspects, Matriarchy--Analysis, Women--China
...Press, 1986), 31. 4 On evolutionary matriarchy, see Johann Jakob Bachofen, Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J. J. Bachofen (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1967). On the refutation...
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Brontes Jane Eyre and the Grimms' Cinderella
Journal article by Micael M. Clarke; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 40, 2000
Subjects: Bronte, Charlotte--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Grimm Brothers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jane Eyre (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1929), p. 118. (20.) See especially Johann Jakob Bachofens Myth, Religion, and mother-Right (1861), also Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgans Woman and Her Master Charlotte Perkins...
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Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism
Journal article by Stephen O. Glosecki; Philological Quarterly, 1999
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Beowulf (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Matrilineal kinship--Research
...religiosen und rechtlichen Natur by Johann Jakob Bachofen (Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffman...stages in social development, Bachofens argument--that matriarchy precedes...misleading, he greatly advanced upon Bachofen in that he discarded the evolutionary...
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Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality
Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Goddess Unmaked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality (Book)--Reviews
...death, and rebirth. In 1861, Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887), a law professor at...intelligentsia. BETWEEN THEM, Bachofen and Michelet were the intellectual...generally and Wicca specifically. Bachofens ideas influenced not only Friedrich...
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The Scholars and the Goddess - Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk
Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001
Subjects: Goddess religion--Research, Paganism--History, Witchcraft--History, Witches--History
...mother goddess. In 1861 the Swiss jurist and writer Johann Jakob Bachofen postulated that the earliest human civilizations were matriarchies. Bachofens theory influenced a wide range of thinkers, including...
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Scholars and the Goddess: Historically Speaking, the "Ancient" Rituals of the Goddess Movement Are Almost Certainly Bunk
Magazine article by Charlotte Allen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, January 2001
Subjects: Goddesses, Religions, Witchcraft
...mother goddess. In 1861 the Swiss jurist and writer Johann Jakob Bachofen postulated that the earliest human civilizations were matriarchies. Bachofens theory influenced a wide range of thinkers, including...


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Bachofen, Johann Jakob
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BACHOFEN, JOHANN JAKOB bako f n, 1815 87, Swiss legal historian and antiquarian. Bachofen studied in Berlin, Gottingen, Paris...social organization. See matriarchy . Bachofens selected writings are included in Myth...


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