JOHANN CHRISTOPH See also:

• JOHANN CHRISTOPH SPURZHEIM

SPURZHEIM  [KASPARI (1776-1832), See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German phrenologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born near Treves on the 31st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1776 . He made the acquaintance of F . J . See also:

• GALL (a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch gal, and Ger. Galle; the Indo-European root appears in Gr. xoXi,, and Lat. fel; possibly connected with " yellow," with reference to the colour of bile)
• GALL, FRANZ JOSEPH (1758-1828)

Gall while studying See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine in See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, and for some years assisted him in spreading his phrenological doctrines, but in 1813 the two separated . See also:

• SPURZHEIM, JOHANN CHRISTOPH

Spurzheim lectured with considerable success in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and was extending his propaganda to the See also:

• UNITED

United States when he died at See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1832 . His See also:

• WORKS

works include: Anatomic et physiologic du systeme rterveux (1810–182o) ; Observations sur la phrenolegie (181o); The Physiognomical Systems of Drs Gall and Spurzheim (1815), and Essai philosophique sur la nature de 1'homme (1820) .