Guido von List

Who was Guido von List?

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian/German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic revivalism, Germanic mysticism, Runic Revivalism and Runosophy in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and continues to be so today.

He is the author of Das Geheimnis der Runen, which is a detailed study of the Armanen Futharkh, his intellectual world-view, an introduction to the rest of his work and is widely regarded as the pioneering work of Runology in modern occultism.