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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...