Self, Race, and Species: J. F. Blumenbach's Atlas Experiment

From: German Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Eigen, Sara | Copyright information

In 1796, the renowned anthropologist and professor of medicine Johann Friedrich Blumenbach produced a scientific atlas entitled Abbildungen Naturhistorischer Gegenstände.1 Seven of the book's one hundred illustrations provide instruction in the natural history of the human species; the subset of five with which the book opens are identified as "characteristische Musterköpfe von Männern aus den 5 Hauptrassen im Menschengeschlechte."2 Given Blumenbach's prominence in European debates about t...

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