biography
pronunciation:
[gal]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1758–1828)
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| biography:
| Anatomist, born in Tiefenbrunn, SW Germany. As a physician in Vienna (1785), he evolved a theory in which a person's talents and qualities were traced to particular areas of the brain. His lectures on phrenology were popular, but suppressed in 1802 as being subversive of religion. |
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