 After the death of Wagner in 1883, his second wife Cosima in continuing to propagate what she saw as her husband's views, was supported by a number of active anti-Semites, including Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Ludwig Schemann.Schemann, the founder of the German Gobineau Society, 'did a great deal to bring Gobineau's term 'Aryan' into vogue amongst German racists'.Chamberlain (d. 1927), who wrote an influential anti-Semitic book, "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, " married Eva Wagner, daughter of the composer.