E. Christian Kopff

E. Christian Kopff
Born22 November 1946 (1946-11-22) (age 78)
Brooklyn, New York
AwardsJacob Van Ek Mentor Award
Academic background
Alma materHaverford College
Academic work
Era1973–present
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Websitehttp://www.colorado.edu/honors/faculty/e-christian-kopff

E. Christian Kopff (born 22 November 1946, Brooklyn, New York[1]) is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 1973.[2] He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the CU Committee on Research.[citation needed] He has been a contributor to far-right publications.[3][4]

Academics

Kopff studied at St. Paul's School (Garden City, New York) before attending Haverford College, from which he received his undergraduate diploma summa cum laude. His doctoral degree in Classics was awarded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2]

Views

Kopff was described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2008 as one of the "notable academic racists" leading the H.L. Mencken Club, of which he was vice president.[3] He has contributed to The Occidental Quarterly, described by the SPLC as a far-right race journal, and Social Contract, an anti-immigrant publication.[3][4]

He has been described as a paleoconservative,[5] and as such he has cited religious and cultural grounds for supporting capital punishment,[6] and described modern American society as a "leftist hegemony"[7] in a piece for a white nationalist publication encouraging "members of the American Alternative Right" to read the works of the Italian far-right philosopher Julius Evola prior to embarking on his own translation of two of Evola's works on Italian Fascism and Nazism.[8][9]

Selected publications

Author

  • "Virgil and the cyclic epics". Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. 2 (31 part 2). Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter: 919–947. 1972. OCLC 844487794.
  • Kopff, E. Christian (June 1989). "Understanding civilization as narrative". Academic Questions. 2 (2). Springer Verlag: 17–21. doi:10.1007/BF02682815. ISSN 0895-4852. S2CID 143446750.
  • The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. 1999. ISBN 978-1-882926251.
  • "Julius Evola & Radical Traditionalism." National Policy Institute. Later reprinted as Julius Evola, an Introduction

Translator

References

  1. ^ "E. Christian Kopff – Honors Program". University of Colorado Boulder. Regents of the University of Colorado. Archived from the original on 28 August 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b "E. Christian Kopff | Arts and Sciences Honors Program | University of Colorado Boulder". University of Colorado Boulder. Regents of the University of Colorado. 24 May 2016. Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Keller, Larry (November 6, 2008). "Prominent Racists Attend Inaugural H.L. Mencken Club Gathering". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  4. ^ a b "VDARE: GOP Should Concentrate on Whites". Southern Poverty Law Center. February 26, 2009. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  5. ^ Francis, Samuel (16 December 2002). "The Paleo Persuasion". The American Conservative. The American Ideas Institute. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  6. ^ LaPoint, Nissa (4 February 2014). "Professors debate death penalty: retribution or mercy?". Denver Catholic. Archdiocese of Denver. Retrieved 18 July 2015. Kopff, who's written a book about America's need for classical tradition, argued for the death penalty based on the extensive history of cultures and Christian thinkers who supported it. "The widespread acceptance of capital punishment … in so many different cultures and nations is a solid argument in its favor," he said. In Western tradition, he mentioned ancient Jews, Greeks and Romans who acknowledged the right to capital punishment. The Church's Council of Trent and leading Christians like Pope Pius XII, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas all wrote in favor of it, even using logical arguments not based on tradition, he said.
  7. ^ "Julius Evola, an Introduction". Radix Journal. National Policy Institute. 12 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-02-02. Retrieved 19 July 2015. Many Americans detest the leftist hegemony we live under, but still want to preserve a toehold on respectability by compromising with modern ideas.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ Stevens, Brett (28 May 2013). "Fascism Viewed From the Right by Julius Evola [Review]". Amerika. Retrieved 1 August 2024. …a small volume which is presented here for the first time in English translation with notes by translator E. Christian Kopff…
  9. ^ Devlin, F. Roger. "National Socialism as Anti-Modernism? Julius Evola's Notes on the Third Reich" (17 May 2013). Counter-Currents. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  10. ^ Oranje, Hans (1987). "Reviewed Work: Euripides, Bacchae by E. Christian Kopff". Gnomon. 59 (1). Verlag C.H.Beck: 7–10. ISSN 0017-1417. JSTOR 27689464.