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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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Bory De Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...was also prominent in studies on the classification of the races of man by physical characteristics, which had begun with Blumenbach. In 1827 he divided man into fifteen species on the basis of the combined value of all the physical characteristics then...
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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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Kielmeyer, Carl Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...never practiced. With ducal support he then undertook his Wanderjahre. Study at G ö ttingen with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and, most important, the physicist Georg Christoph Lichenberg, was followed by a tour of museums...
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Meckel, Johann Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the University of G ö ttingen. There he studied comparative anatomy with the famous physician and anthropologist Blumenbach. His subsequent doctoral dissertation, defended at Halle in 1802, dealt with the subject of cardiac malfunctions. Meckel...
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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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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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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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