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CAMPER, PETER (1722-1789)

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CAMPER, See also:PETER (1722-1789) , Dutch anatomist and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Leiden on the 11th of May 1722. He was educated at the university there, and in 1746 graduated in See also:philosophy and See also:medicine. After the See also:death of his See also:father in 1748 he spent more than a See also:year in See also:England, and then visited See also:Paris, See also:Lyons and See also:Geneva, and returned to See also:Franeker, where in 1750 he had been appointed to the professorship of philosophy, medicine and See also:surgery. He visited England a second See also:time in 1752, and in 1755 he was called to the See also:chair of See also:anatomy and surgery at the See also:Athenaeum in See also:Amsterdam. He resigned this See also:post after six years, and retired to his See also:country See also:house near Franeker, in See also:order uninterruptedly to carry on his-studies. In 1763, however, he accepted the professorship of medicine, surgery and anatomy at See also:Groningen, and continued in the chair for ten years. He then returned to Franeker, and after the death of his wife in 1776 spent some time in travelling. In 1762 he had been returned as one of the deputies in the See also:assembly of the See also:province of See also:Fries-See also:land, and the latter years of his See also:life were much occupied with See also:political affairs. In 1787 he was nominated to a seat in the See also:council of See also:state, and took up his See also:residence at the See also:Hague, where he died on the 7th of See also:April 1789. Camper's See also:works, mainly See also:memoirs and detached papers, are very numerous; the most important of those bearing on See also:comparative anatomy were published in 3 vols. at Paris in 1803, under the See also:title Ruvres de P. Camper qui ont pour objet l'histoire naturelle, la physiologie, et l'anatomie comparee. His Dissertation physique sur See also:les See also:differences reelles que presentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de differents pays et de diffcrents ages; sur le beau qui caracterise les statues antiques et les pieces gravees, &c., which was published in 1781 both in Dutch and in See also:French, contains an See also:account of the facial See also:angle which he used as a See also:cranial characteristic.

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