Armanism and
Ariosophy are the names of ideological systems of an
esoteric nature, pioneered by
Guido von List and
Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels respectively, in
Austria between 1890 and 1930. The term 'Ariosophy', meaning wisdom concerning the
Aryans, was first coined by Lanz von Liebenfels in 1915 and became the label for his doctrine in the 1920s. In research on the topic, such as Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book
The Occult Roots of Nazism, the term 'Ariosophy' is used generically to describe the Aryan-esoteric theories of a subset of the 'Völkische Bewegung'. This broader use of the word is retrospective and was not generally current among the esotericists themselves." List actually called his doctrine 'Armanism', while Lanz used the terms 'Theozoology' and 'Ario-Christianity' before the First World War.