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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. [3] He has been called the "founder of racial classifications." [4]
- Christian Wilhelm Büttner
- Göttingen
Beginning in 1775, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) suggested that the four races in the taxonomy of Linnaeus (including, African, American, Asian, and European) could be expanded to five, with somewhat different terminology: Europeans as Caucasians, Africans as Aethiopians, Asians as Mongolians, as well as Americans and Malays (who were ...
May 11, 2022 · On May 11, 1752, German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was born. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. Frequently called the father of physical anthropology, Blumenbach proposed one of the earliest classifications of the races of mankind.
Dec 20, 2007 · Raj Bhopal re-examines the role of perhaps the most important contributor to the scientific concept of race, Blumenbach, whose insights and errors provide important lessons for us today The biological concept of human races, as subspecies characterised primarily by physique, has a stormy history.1 The consensus after the Second World War—that race is a social construct with minor biological ...
- Raj Bhopal
- 2007
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) was a German naturalist and anthropologist known for manifold scientific achievements during his long and productive career. In 1776, he was appointed professor of medicine and curator of the Museum of Natural History at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. Blumenbach was one of the first to study ...
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Importantly, Blumenbach listed the races in this exact order, which he believed reflected their natural historical descent from the “primeval” Caucasian original to “extreme varieties.” 4 [4] Although he was a committed abolitionist, Blumenbach nevertheless felt that his “Caucasian” race (named after the Caucasus Mountains of ...
Vanderbilt University. Self, Race, and Species: J. E Blumenbach's Atlas Experiment. In 1796, the renowned anthropologist and professor of medicine Johann. Friedrich Blumenbach produced a scientific atlas entitled Abbildungen Natur- historischer Gegenstinde.'. Seven of the book's one hundred illustrations pro- vide instruction in the natural ...
