JOHANN See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH See also:

• JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (1752–1840)

BLUMENBACH (1752–1840)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German physiologist and anthropologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha on the 11th of May 1752 . After studying See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• JENA

Jena, he graduated See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen in 1775, and was appointed extraordinary See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of medicine in 1776 and See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary professor in 1778 . He died at Gottingen on the 22nd of See also:

• JANUARY

January 184o . He was the author of Institutiones Physiologicae (1787), and of a See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

Hand-See also:

• BUCK
• BUCK, CARL DARLING (1866– )
• BUCK, DUDLEY (1839-1909)

buck der vergleichenden Anatomie (1804), both of which were very popular and went through many See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, but he is best known for his See also:

• WORK

work in connexion with See also:

• ANTHROPOLOGY (Gr. avOpw1ror man, and Xoyos, theory or science)

anthropology, of which See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science he has been justly called the founder . He was the first to show the value of See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy in the study of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's See also:

• HISTORY

history, and his craniometrical researches justified his See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the human See also:

• RACE

race into several See also:

• GREAT

great varieties or families, of which he enumerated five—the Caucasian or See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white race, the Mongolian or yellow, the Malayan or See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown race, the See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

Negro or See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black race, and the See also:

• AMERICAN

American or red race . This See also:

• CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification has been very generally received, and most later schemes have been modifications of it . His most important anthropological work was his description of sixty human crania published originally in fasciculi under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Collectionis suae craniorum diversarum gentium illustratae decades (Gottingen, 1790–1828) .