Did the Habsburgs try to ally with them against the Ottomans?How did Nietzsche learn about Zarathustra?
>>16549033They didn't really know much if anything about them in the 1600s.In the 1800s there was a move towards Orientalism and the holy books of Zoroastrianism were discovered and translated by Europeans (mostly Germans) and used to develop early linguistic theory and reconstruction of Proto Indo European (again, mostly German philologists)
iran monkeys are so delusional
>>16549033Goethe was a huge Persiaboo
>>16549033according to the Nürnberger Gesetze they were even considered more pure aryans than germans themselves
>>16549033Nazis actually considered them to be Aryans, even an Iranian diplomat at the time convinced the Nazis to not persecute Iranian Jews.
>>16549033The Habsburgs, the Russians and Napoleonic France have all tried at various points to make an anti-Ottoman alliance with Iran. It usually came of nothing other than co-belligerency when they independently fought the Turks.
>How did Nietzsche learn about Zarathustra?Iranology was invented by Germans. Persian culture, especially literature, was pretty big in Germany. Goethe famously wrote a book on Hafez (I think he named it "Divan") and considered Persian literature to be amongst the four greatest in the world.Hegel was extremely fond of the Achamenids.If you read the preface to Zarathustra (can't remember which translation) Nietzsches sister goes into detail why he chose the Iranian Zarathustra as the messenger for the Man to Come, the Uberman.
