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He graduated from the latter in 1775 with his M.D. thesis De generis humani varietate nativa (On the Natural Variety of Mankind, University of Göttingen, which was first published in 1775, then re-issued with changes to the titlepage in 1776).
- Christian Wilhelm Büttner
- Göttingen
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) was a prominent German anatomist and early anthropologist who played a major role in elevating science above racial prejudice and toward scientific objectivity.
Abstract. He who means to write about the variety of mankind, and to describe the points in which the races of men differ from each other in bodily constitution, must first of all investigate those differences which separate man himself from the rest of the animals.
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Thomas Bendyshe
- 1865
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Nov 6, 2013 · Reprint of the 1865 ed., published under title: The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Jan 22, 2014 · In the second edition of On the Natural Varieties of Mankind, Blumenbach used Bildungstrieb to explain the degeneration of an original type of human into the five varieties—which he later classified as Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American—found around the world.
Blumenbach, J. F. (1865). On the natural variety of mankind (T. Bendyshe, Trans.). In J. F. Blumenbach & T. Bendyshe (Trans.), The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (pp. 69–143). Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. https:// https://doi.org/10.1037/13883-003. Abstract
May 9, 2024 · Blumenbach was the first to show the value of comparative anatomy in the study of man’s history. His research in the measurement of craniums led him to divide mankind into five great families—Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American.
