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Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich ( b . Gotha, Germany...anthropology, comparative anatomy . Blumenbach was born into a cultured, wealthy Protestant...theologian. Thus, from a very early age, Blumenbach was exposed to both literature and natural...
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Racial Equality
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...scientific status by Carolus Linnaeus and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Typical of the era, each explained race with reference...phlegmatic, relaxed, and ruled by caprice. Later, in 1795, Blumenbach asserted the moral equality of races but still categorized...
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Peter Camper, S. T. S ö mmerring, and J. F. Blumenbach maintained that the inference would be justified only if the...amateur. His erroneous belief that S ö mmerring and Blumenbach eventually accepted his findings arose because in his old...
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Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...mathematics and tried to compute the solar eclipse of 1774. In 1777 he began the study of medicine in G ö ttingen under Blumenbach and Ernst Baldinger, and also attended lectures in physics and mathematics by G. C. Lichtenberg and, especially, A...
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Prichard, James Cowles
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...unable to believe that racial differences were caused by the direct action of environmental factors, as maintained by Buffon, Blumenbach, and other authorities. In his medical dissertation he argued that changes due to external factors affect only the individual...
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Cuvier, Ceorges
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...art of dissection and probably comparative anatomy as well. This science was then taught in T ü bingen by J. F. Blumenbach, whom Kielmeyer joined in 1786, after having pledge Cuvier eternal friendship in the emotional style of late eighteenth...
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Forster, (Johann) Georg Adam
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Carolinium in Kassel. He was soon in contact with the prominent men of science and letters in Germany, including J. F. Blumenbach, G. C. Lichtenberg, and S. T. S ö mmering. Forster was particularly attracted by the intellectual climate of...
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Greenough, George Bellas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...xF6; ottingen University to study law, and to improve his German he attended the natural history lectures of J. F. Blumenbach. As a result he developed an enthusiasm for science, particularly geology, which lasted all his life. Considerable inherited...
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Hoff, Karl Ernst Adolf von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...undertook additional studies in physics and the natural sciences. The latter were carried out mainly under the guidance of Blumenbach, who also introduced him to geology and with whom he was to remain close friends. In 1791 he entered Gotha ’ s...
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Leonhard, Karl Cäsar von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...1798 he went to the University of G ö ttingen, where his interest in mineralogy was awakened by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Because of his early marriage, however, he had to abandon his original intention to study mineralogy under Werner at Freiberg...
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