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{{Short description|German journalist}}
[[File:Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl.01.jpg|thumb|Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl]]
'''Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl''' (6 May 1823 – 16 November 1897) was a German professor, [[journalist]], [[novelist]], and [[folklorist]].
==Academic career==
Riehl was born in [[Wiesbaden-Biebrich|Biebrich]] in the [[Duchy of Nassau]] and died in [[Munich]]. Riehl was born into a settled middle-class background, was a professor at the [[University of Munich]], and later in life a curator of Bavarian antiquities.<ref>George L. Mosse, ''The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich'' (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), p. 19.</ref>
==Volkish thought==
According to [[George Mosse]] "Riehl's writings became normative for a large body of [[Völkisch movement|Volkish]] thought."<ref>George L. Mosse, ''The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich'' (New York:
▲::"Riehl desired a hierarchical society that patterned after the medieval estates. In ''Die bürgerliche Gesellschaft'' (Bourgeois Society) he accused those of Capitalist interest of "disturbing ancient customs and thus destroying the historicity of the Volk."<ref>George L. Mosse, ''The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich'' (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), p. 20.</ref>
Riehl argued that the 'working class' were the most respectable Volk, since they were best attuned to nature itself.<ref>George L. Mosse, ''The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich'' (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), pp. 19–23.</ref> Throughout his work, Riehl displays a strong conviction that the German people and land are intrinsically connected to one another. He also is considered the founder of the "German ethnographic Volkskunde" and drew many of his conclusions in his work from his personal experiences hiking throughout Germany.<ref>Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, ''War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I'' (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 167.</ref>
==References==▼
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==Bibliography==
* [[George Peabody Gooch]] [https://archive.org/details/a583266900goocuoft ''History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century''] (1913)
* Liulevicius, Vejas G. ''War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
* Mosse, George L. ''The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich''. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.
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== External links ==
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