Klatt, Norbert. 2010b. “Johann Friedrich Blumenbach als ungenannter Gegner in Georg Forsters Streitmit Immanuel Kant über den Rassenbegriff.” Kleine Beiträge zur Blumenbach-Forschung. Göttingen: ...

The classification dates back to 1795, when Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a respected German physician and anthropologist, conducted research in which he measured skulls, a then-common practice for ...

To Goethe, whose influence is quite manifest in Blumenbach's writings, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach may already have been one of the deplorable specialists of the younger generation; to ...

During the 18th century, European Enlightenment-era scholars and scientists including Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus and German physiologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach further solidified the ...

JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH, a pioneer in anthropology and craniology, was born on May 11, 1752, at Gotha. He studied medicine at Jena under Soemmering and qualified in 1776 at Göttingen, where ...

The idea of one big white race did not just spring to life full-blown and unchanging, which is what most people assume — and white supremacists rely on.

He and his associates, such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, an amiable natural scientist, did not mean to propose a racial hierarchy. However others, ...

It is hardly a coincidence that the Declaration of Independence, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s On the Natural Variety of Mankind were all published within a ...

The 18th-century German anatomist Johann Blumenbach kept a collection of 250 human skulls, but he found one particularly enchanting. “My beautiful typical head of a young Georgian female,” he ...

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich. De generis humani varietate nativa , 3d. ed. (1795). Boulle, Pierre H. “François Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race.” ...

The idea that humans can be understood as constituting natural taxonomic units has bedevilled anthropology ever since. In the eighteenth century, both Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Georges-Louis ...