Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was the revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of Ariosophical teachings that he termed Armanism.

Guido Karl Anton List was born onOctober 1848 in Vienna, then part of the Austrian Empire. Born to a prosperous middleclass family, he was the eldest son of Karl Anton List, a leather goods dealer who was the son of Karl List, a publican and vintner. Guidos mother, Marian List, was the daughter of builders merchant Franz Anton Killian. List was raised in the citys second bezirk, on the eastern side of the Danube canal. Like most Austrians at the time, his family were members of the Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity, with List being christened into this faith at St Peters Church in Vienna. Reflecting the familys wealth and bourgeoisie status, in 1851 a watercolour portrait of List was painted by the artist Anton von Anreiter.

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