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  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Blumenbach was born into a wealthy Protestant family to his father, Heinrich and his mother, Charlotte Eleonore Hedwig Buddeus in Gotta, Germany on May 11 (Gillispie 203).
Blumenbach later studies were based mainly on his role in the founding of scientific anthropology.
Although, Blumenbach was a pioneer collector of human crania and often cited as the fonder of craniology, he didn’t contribute to the development of any craniometric methods.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/blumenbach_friedrich.html   (599 words)

  
 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (www.whonamedit.com)
Blumenbach view of the nature was a philosophical one; he searched for the causes of things, not satisfying himself with the mere counting and description of phenomena.
Blumenbach was one of the earliest thinkers to recognise the «historicalness» of nature, and therefore occupies an important place in the history of evolution theory.
Blumenbach was the founder of craniology, and his craniological collection served as the principal foundation for his investigations into the natural history of mankind.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1247.html   (1725 words)

  
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German physiologist and anthropologist.
J.F. Blumenbach He was born at Gotha, studied medicine at Jena and graduated in 1775 with his MD thesis De generis humani vari...
He was born at Gotha, studied medicine at Jena and graduated in 1775 with his MD thesis De generis humani varietate nativa (On the Natural Varieties of Mankind, University of Göttingen), which is considered one of the most influential works in the development of subsequent concepts of human races.
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 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Blumenbach' s more complete collection allowed intensive study into the racial history of mankind, which is just what he wanted to do.
Blumenbach also minimized the importance of sex differences and disagreed with the notion that sex could easily be determined by the skull or other skeletal bones, save the pelvis.
Blumenbach searched for answers regarding the history man and the varieties of the specie of man. We still search for such answers, but from his guidance we have been given some direction and inspiration.
campus.udayton.edu /~hume/Blumenbach/blumenbach.htm   (5251 words)

  
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AUTHOR Böchk, August (some volumes coauthored by Johannes Franz)
Studiosis In Academia Iulia S.D. Johannes Gothardus Böekelius
AUTHOR Bohn, Johann Philipp von (1597 - 1658)
www.philological.bham.ac.uk /bibliography/bl-bo.html   (3149 words)

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