Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Ledddihn (German: ['ky?nt l?] 'di?n, born July 31, 1909 in Tobelbad, Austria-Hungary; died May 26, 1999, in Lans, Tyrol.

He opposed the French Revolution, as well as communism and Nazism.

Kuehnelt-Ledddohn claimed that majority rule in democracies is a threat to individual liberty and a critic of all forms of totalitarianism, although he also supported "non-liberal republics" like Switzerland and the early United States, although he was a polyglot who was able to speak eight languages and read seventeen others.

Within the American conservative movement, his books The Menace of the Herd and Liberty or Equality were influential.

William F. Buckley Jr.'s best-known writings appeared in National Review, where he served as a columnist for 35 years.

Life

Von Kuehnelt-Ledddhn was born in Tobelbad, Styria, Austria-Hungary. He became The Spectator's Vienna reporter at 16 years old. He wrote for the remainder of his life from then on. At the University of Vienna, he studied civil and canon law. He enrolled in Budapest, where he earned his M.A. He worked in economists and earned a doctorate in political science. He began studying in theology while returning to Vienna. Kuehnelt-Ledddihn, a Jesuit public school, went to England in 1935 to become a schoolmaster at Beaumont College. He then moved to the United States, where he taught at Georgetown University (1937–1938), and Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia (1943–1947).

Kuehnelt-Leddddihn was reported to have had a supernatural experience in 1931, while in Hungary. The two guys were talking to a friend while debating deserted graveyards, and Satan appeared before them. Kuehnelt-Ledddddihn reminisces of this experience as well: Kuehnelt-Leddddihn relates this experience as well:

Kuehnelt-Leddihn sluggishly wrote a 1939 letter to The New York Times editor, criticizing every American coin then issued, except for the Washington quarter, which he allowed to be "the most deplorable coin" and considered the Mercury dime to be "the most deplorable."

After releasing books like Jesuiten, Spießer und Bolschewiken in 1933 (published in German by Pustet, Salzburg) and The Menace of the Herd in 1943, he remained in the United States because he did not return to the Austria that had been integrated into the Third Reich.

He resettled in Lans, where he lived until his death. He was a frequent traveler, visiting over seventy-five countries (including the Soviet Union in 1930-1931), as well as all fifty states in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico.

Kuehnelt-Ledddihn published articles in Chronicles, Thought, the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Catholic World, and the Norwegian business magazine Farmand. He spent time at the Acton Institute, which named him "a true friend and supporter" after his death. He was an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Kuehnelt was also a painter for a large part of his life; he illustrated some of his own books.

Kuehnelt maintained relationships with many of the twentieth century's top conservative intellectuals and figures, including William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk, Otto von Habsburg, Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Ernst Jünger, and Joseph Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict XVI). Kuehnelt-Leddihn was "the world's most interesting man," according to Buckley.

Kuehnelt-Ledddihn was married to Countess Christiane Gräfin von Goess, with whom he had three children. He was survived by all four of them as well as seven grandchildren at the time of his death in 1999.

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