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University of Göttingen. Main interests. Polygenism. Christoph Meiners (31 July 1747 – 1 May 1810) was a German racialist, philosopher, historian, and writer born in Warstade. He supported the polygenist theory of human origins. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history .
Abstract. Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) was a philosopher and professor in Göttingen. In his treatise “Über die Natur der afrikanischen Neger” [“On the Nature of the African Negroes”], he opposed the abolition of slavery in 1790. In the Enlightenment manner, he linked aesthetic, physical, emotional, creative-cognitive, and moral ...
Christoph Meiners, 1785 (Meiners Grundriß 1785, [xx–xxii]). [1] * * *. Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) is one of the most overlooked and, I would argue, significant figures in the history of anthropology and European attitudes about race (Guettel 2012, 49; Golf-French 2019, 945).
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Sep 28, 2023 · This chapter traces the development of racial thought in the German Enlightenment, looking at Christoph Meiners’s Outline of the History of Humanity, a work primarily concerned with his profoundly hierarchical theory of human racial difference.
Sep 18, 2023 · Topics. Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) was one of the most unusual members of Göttingen University, which he belonged to from 1767 to 1810 as a student and professor. What made his work unusual was that, for example, he spent more than 40 years publishing in all fields of philosophy and historiography, in many areas of the popular philosophy ...
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Dec 30, 2021 · In this context, Christoph Meiners (1747–1810) has proven particularly difficult to digest. A professor at Göttingen and prolific writer on virtually every domain of Enlightenment thought, Meiners is notorious today for his theory of race.
Christoph Meiners (* 31. Juli 1747 in Warstade; † 1. Mai 1810 in Göttingen) war Philosoph, Ethnograph, Professor der Weltweisheit in Göttingen und ein Vertreter der Popularphilosophie.
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