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BLUMENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (1752–1840)

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BLUMENBACH, JOHANN See also:FRIEDRICH (1752–1840) , See also:German physiologist and anthropologist, was See also:born at See also:Gotha on the 11th of May 1752. After studying See also:medicine at See also:Jena, he graduated See also:doctor at See also:Gottingen in 1775, and was appointed extraordinary See also:professor of medicine in 1776 and See also:ordinary professor in 1778. He died at Gottingen on the 22nd of See also:January 184o. He was the author of Institutiones Physiologicae (1787), and of a See also:Hand-See also:buck der vergleichenden Anatomie (1804), both of which were very popular and went through many See also:editions, but he is best known for his See also:work in connexion with See also:anthropology, of which See also:science he has been justly called the founder. He was the first to show the value of See also:comparative See also:anatomy in the study of See also:man's See also:history, and his craniometrical researches justified his See also:division of the human See also:race into several See also:great varieties or families, of which he enumerated five—the Caucasian or See also:white race, the Mongolian or yellow, the Malayan or See also:brown race, the See also:Negro or See also:black race, and the See also:American or red race. This See also:classification has been very generally received, and most later schemes have been modifications of it. His most important anthropological work was his description of sixty human crania published originally in fasciculi under the See also:title Collectionis suae craniorum diversarum gentium illustratae decades (Gottingen, 1790–1828).

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