This article’s lead section may orange julius too long for the length of the article. Please help by moving some material from it into the body of the article. Born to a prominent Jewish family in Württemberg, he graduated from the University of Munich shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
After the murder of a friend, he attended the trial in which he saw that the judge completely ignored evidence against the Nazi Brownshirts. Horrified, he ardently investigated many similar political murders that had occurred and published his findings in Four Years of Political Murder in 1922. In 1928, he published Causes of Political Murder and also tried to create a political group to counter Nazism. Among the Nazis’ most-hated public intellectuals, he was forced out of his position in Heidelberg in 1932.
Gumbel then moved to France, where he taught in Paris and Lyon and then to the United States in 1940. As a mathematician, Gumbel was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher. In 1958, Gumbel published a key book on the topic of statistics of extremes. When he died, Gumbel’s papers were made a part of The Emil J. Gumbel Collection, Political Papers of an Anti-Nazi Scholar in Weimar and Exile. These papers include reels of microfilm that document his activities against the Nazis.
A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Emil J. Much of this discussion is drawn from an account in The Lady Tasting Tea, a book about the history of Statistics and biographies of Statisticians. More biographical details of Gumbel’s opposition to Nazism can be found in The Emil J. Gumbel’s last course on the “Statistical theory of extreme values”: a conversation with Tuncel M.
Gumbel: Weimar German Pacifist and Professor. This article about a German mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a statistician is a stub. According to the scholar Franco Ferraresi, “Evola’s thought can be considered one of the most radical and consistent anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-popular systems in the 20th century”.
Evola admired SS head Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, whom he once met. Concerning this statement, historian Elisabetta Cassina Wolff wrote that “It is unclear whether this meant that Evola was placing himself above or beyond Fascism”. Evola has been called the “chief ideologue” of Italy’s radical right after World War II. He continues to influence contemporary traditionalist and neo-fascist movements. Evola has been often been reported as being a baron, probably in reference to a purported distant relationship with a minor aristocratic family, the Evoli, who were the barons of Castropignano in the Kingdom of Sicily in the late Middle Ages. Little is known about Evola’s early upbringing except that he considered it irrelevant.
He studied engineering at the Istituto Tecnico Leonardo da Vinci in Rome, but did not complete his course, later claiming this was because he “did not want to be associated in any way with bourgeois academic recognition and titles such as doctor and engineer. In his teenage years, Evola immersed himself in painting—which he considered one of his natural talents—and literature, including Oscar Wilde and Gabriele d’Annunzio. In the First World War, Evola served as an artillery officer on the Asiago plateau. Evola died on 11 June 1974 in Rome from congestive heart failure. In 1928, Evola wrote an attack on Christianity titled Pagan Imperialism, which proposed transforming fascism into a system consistent with ancient Roman values and Western esotericism. Evola proposed that fascism should be a vehicle for reinstating the caste system and aristocracy of antiquity. On account of Evola’s anti-Christian proposals, in April 1928 the Vatican-backed right wing Catholic journal Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes published an article entitled “Un Sataniste Italien: Julius Evola”, accusing him of satanism.