biography
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Barras de Aragón, Francisco de las
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pronunciation:
[baras thay ara
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| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1950)
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| biography:
| Physical anthropologist, born in Seville, SW Spain. He studied art and painting and the theory and history of art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Sevilla (1885–9). Also interested in natural history and the history of science, he studied for a degree in law (1890), then for one in science (1895) in Madrid, before proceeding to his doctorate in the same subject. He became a member of the Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (1895) and published his first writings, a series of notes on anthropology, in its Anales (1896–7). In 1897 he began his academic career as an assistant professor in the faculty of science at the University of Oviedo, then held the chair in natural history, physiology, and hygiene at the Institute of Palencia, before moving to Avila and Huelva. Several other university posts followed, culminating in his election to the chair of anthropology on the retirement of Antón y Ferrándiz, and to the post of head of the ethnography section of the Museo de Antropologia, which he held until his retirement. His Notas de Antropología (1925) was followed by Notas para un curso de Antropología (1927), intended for his students. |
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