Becoming popular in German intellectual cliques,[6] particularly the Bayreuth Circle, in the phenomena that Walter Charles Langer described as "Gobineau Societies",[7] Gobinism was later adapted by the likes of Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Alfred Rosenberg to forge elements of Nazi philosophy.[8] Gobineau's antisemitism was emphasized within Gobinism to ideologically bridge to the later Nazi movement.[9]