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JOSEPH DENIKER (1852– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 21 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:DENIKER (1852– )  See also:French naturalist and anthropologist, was See also:born of French parents at See also:Astrakhan, See also:Russia, on the 6th of See also:March 1852 . After receiving his See also:education at the university and technical See also:institute of St See also:Petersburg, he adopted See also:engineering as a profession, and in this capacity travelled extensively in the See also:petroleum districts of the See also:Caucasus, in Central See also:Europe, See also:Italy and See also:Dalmatia . Settling at See also:Paris in 1876, he studied at the See also:Sorbonne, where he took his degree in natural See also:science . In 1888 he was appointed See also:chief librarian of the Natural See also:History Museum, Paris . Among his many valuable ethnological See also:works mention may be made of Recherches anatomiques et embryologiques sur See also:les singes anthropoides (1886); Etude sur les Kalmouks (1883); Les Ghiliaks (1883); and Races et peoples de la terre (1900) . He became one of the chief editors of the Dictionnaire de geographie universelle, and published many papers in the anthropological and zoological See also:journals of See also:France .

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