Walter schubart biography

By Juan Manuel De Prada.

I am reading these days “Europe and the Eastern Soul”, a book from a completely forgotten author, Walter Schubart (1897-1942) that I strongly recommend, as it will help to better understand the Russian soul as its conflict with the West.

Walter Schubart’s biography is really an example of tragedy: German and strongly pro-Russian, left Nazi Germany to become a University professor in Riga where he became somewhat famous in the 30s as cultural and religious philosopher.

When the Soviet Union took over Latvia in 1940, Schubart tried to flee the country with his wife Vera, a Jewish Latvian, but they were detained and deported to a concentration camp in Kazakhstan where both died.

“Europe and the Eastern Soul” can be understood along Max Spengler’s famous “The Decline of the West”. It shares its understanding of cultures as biological entities that after reaching their high point go into decadence until disappe