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BRINTON, DANIEL GARRISON (1837-1899)

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BRINTON, See also:DANIEL See also:GARRISON (1837-1899) , See also:American archaeologist and ethnologist, was See also:born at Thornburg; Penns sylvania, on the 13th of May 1837, He graduated at Yale in 1858, studied for two years in the See also:Jefferson Medical See also:College, and then for one See also:year travelled in See also:Europe and continued his studies at See also:Paris and See also:Heidelberg. From 1862 to 1865, during the See also:Civil See also:War in See also:America, he was a surgeon in the See also:Union See also:army, acting for one year, 1864-1865, as surgeon in See also:charge of the U.S. Army See also:general See also:hospital at See also:Quincy, See also:Illinois. After the war he practised See also:medicine at Westchester, See also:Pennsylvania, for several years; was the editor of a weekly periodical, the Medical and Surgical Reporter, in See also:Philadelphia, from 1874 to 1887; became See also:professor of See also:ethnology and See also:archaeology in the See also:Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1884, and was professor of American linguistics and archaeology in the university of Pennsylvania from 1886 until his See also:death at Philadelphia on the 3rst of See also:July 1899. He was a member of numerous learned See also:societies in the See also:United States and in Europe; and was See also:president at different times of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, • of the American Folk-See also:Lore Society and of the American Association for the See also:Advancement of See also:Science. During the See also:period from 18.59 (when he published his first See also:book) to 1899, he wrote a See also:score of books, several of them of See also:great value, and a large number of See also:pamphlets, brochures, addresses and magazihe articles. His See also:principal See also:works are:—The Myths of the New See also:World (1868), the first See also:attempt to analyse and correlate, according to true scientific principles, the See also:mythology of the American See also:Indians; The Religious Sentiment: Its See also:Sources and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and See also:Philosophy of See also:Religion (1876); American See also:Hero Myths (1882) ; Essays of an Americanist (189o); Races and Peoples (189o); The American See also:Race (1891) The Pursuit of Happiness (1893); and Religions of See also:Primitive See also:People (1897). In addition, he edited and published a Library of American Aboriginal Literature (8 vols. 1882-1890), a valuable contribution to the science of See also:anthropology in America. Of the eight volumes; six were edited by Brinton himself, one by Horatio See also:Hale and one by A. S. Gatschet.

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