Nicholas goodrick clarke paracelsus biography

British historian (–)

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (15 January &#;&#; 29 August ) was a British historian and professor of Western esotericism at the University of Exeter, best known for his authorship of several scholarly books on the history of Germany between the World Wars and Western esotericism.

Early life and education

Goodrick-Clarke was born in Lincoln, UK, on 15 January , and was an Open Exhibitioner at Lancing College. He studied German, politics, and philosophy at the University of Bristol, and gained a B.A.

with distinction.^[7] Moving to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Goodrick-Clarke obtained a with a dissertation on the modern occult revival and Theosophy at the end of the twentieth century.

Career

Goodrick-Clarke's Ph.D.

dissertation was the basis for his most celebrated work, The Occult Roots of Nazism.^[3] This book has been continually in print since its first publication in , and has been translated into twel