biography
| name: |
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
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pronunciation:
[bloomenbahkh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1752–1840)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Gotha, C Germany. He studied at Jena and Göttingen, where he became professor of medicine in 1776. By his study of comparative skull measurements, he established a quantitative basis for racial classification. |
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