JOSEPH

See also:

• JOSEPH DENIKER (1852– )

DENIKER (1852– )  French naturalist and anthropologist, was born of French parents at Astrakhan, Russia, on the 6th of March 1852 . After receiving his education at the university and technical institute of St Petersburg, he adopted engineering as a profession, and in this capacity travelled extensively in the petroleum districts of the Caucasus, in Central Europe, Italy and Dalmatia . Settling at Paris in 1876, he studied at the Sorbonne, where he took his degree in natural science . In 1888 he was appointed chief librarian of the Natural History Museum, Paris . Among his many valuable ethnological works mention may be made of Recherches anatomiques et embryologiques sur 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 journals of France .