14 Facts About Han Ryner

Jacques Elie Henri Ambroise Ner, known by the pseudonym Han Ryner, was a French individualist anarchist philosopher and activist and a novelist.

Han Ryner wrote for publications such as L'Art social, L'Humanite nouvelle, L'Ennemi du Peuple, L'Idee Libre de Lorulot; and L'En dehors and L'Unique of fellow anarchist individualist Emile Armand.

Han Ryner's thought is mainly influenced by Stoicism and Epicureanism.

Han Ryner was born in Nemours, Department of Oran, French Algeria in a modest religious family.

In 1896, he adopted the pseudonym "Han Ryner" and started writing for such magazines as L'Art social, L'Humanite nouvelle of Augustin Hamon, L'Ennemi du Peuple of Emile Janvion and L'Idee Libre.

Han Ryner started writing in Spanish individualist journals such as Etica, which already had an important influence of the thought of Ryner.

Han Ryner campaigned for the liberation of Eugene Dieudonne in 1913; for that of Emile Armand during the war; for the mutiny in the Black Sea; and for the Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and for the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.

Han Ryner opposed World War I on pacifist anti-militaristic grounds.

Han Ryner was a rare case of an anarchist participating in the Felibrige.

The mature thought of Han Ryner is influenced by Stoicism and Epicureanism.

Han Ryner was perfectly happy in the situations most painful to ordinary men.

Han Ryner defined individualism as "the moral doctrine which, relying on no dogma, no tradition, no external determination, appeals only to the individual conscience".

Han Ryner was the enemy of priests, external cults and, in general, all organizations.

Han Ryner regarded that the individualist act must be in accord with his ideas and he calls that "virtue".