But he wasn't even barbaric. He did separate humans into races per stereotype. This is wrong as we know today, but people that make him the forebearer are plain

But he wasn't even barbaric. He did separate humans into races per stereotype. This is wrong as we know today, but people that make him the forebearer are plainly wrong (and unnecessarily gives those theories even more credit for connecting his name to them). For the time he lived in this is negligible, he was completely dedicated to science which could indeed serve as an example for more ideological ambitions.