biography
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Antón y Ferrándiz, Manuel
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pronunciation:
[antohn ee ferandi
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| male
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| lived:
| (1849–1929)
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| biography:
| Physical anthropologist, also interested in ethnology, born in Muchamiel, Alicante, SE Spain. After studying at Institutes in Alicante and Valencia, he graduated in chemistry and then obtained a doctorate in physics and chemical sciences (1876). Due to ill health, he abandoned this speciality and interested himself in natural sciences, in which he obtained his doctorate at the Universidad Central in 1883. He was converted to anthropology on his return from a scientific expedition to Morocco (1883), in which he participated as a zoologist and botanist. In 1884 he published La raza de Cro-Magnon en España. His importance lay in his efforts to establish anthropology in academic institutions. He created the anthropology section in the Museo de Historia Natural in Madrid, the nucleus of which was formed by the ethnographic objects and anthropological remains collected by naturalists on the Pacific Expedition (1862–6) and other collections of bones from the comparative anatomy and palaeontology sections. His writings include Razas y tribus de Marruecos (1903), Los origenes de la hominación (1917), for his election to the Academia de la Historia, and Antropología o Historia Natural del Hombre (1912). |
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