Arische Migrationstheorie

Posted by: Indigoblau am 12. Februar 2008:

Es ist unzulässig, Max Müller zu unterschieben, er habe aus seiner Übersetzung der Rigveda „die Existenz einer arischen Rasse abgeleitet“. Die renomierte ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA bescheinigt Max Müller in ihrer Ausgabe von 1911 (Band 2, Seite 712) einen untadligen Ruf: er habe behutsam darauf geachtet, den in der Sprachwissenschaft (jener Zeit) vieldeutig ausgelegten Begriff Aryan („Arier“), desgleichen den Term ARYAS, nicht mit ethnischen Kriterien zu verknüpfen – und verweist auf das von Müller 1888 publizierte Buch: „Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas“, Seite 245: "Aryas are those who speak Aryan Language, whatever their color, whatever their blood. In calling them Aryas we predicate nothing of them except that the grammar of their language is Aryan" (p. 245). It is to be observed, therefore, that Max Müller is careful to avoid any ethnological signification. The Aryas are those who speak Aryan without regard to the question whether Aryan is their hereditary language or not. As he says still more definitely elsewhere in the same work (p. 120), "I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. The same applies to Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Celts and Slaves. When I speak of them I commit myself to no anatomical characteristics. The blue-eyed and fair-haired Scandinavians may have been conquerors or conquered, they may have adopted the language of their darker lords or their subjects, or vice versa. I assert nothing beyond their language when I call them Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Celts and Slaves; and in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. ... To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammer.“ [Ende des Zitats.]

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