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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German medical doctor, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He has been called the "founder of racial classifications".
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science · German physiologist and anthropologist (1752-1840) · anatomist · anthropologist · paleontologist · zoologist · physician · university teacher · physiologist · curator · biologist · also Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Blumenbach, J. F. Blumenbach, J.F. Blumenbach, Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, Blumenbach, J. F.
Born 11 May 1752 · Died 22 January 1840 · Q58588
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“All national differences in the form and colour of the human body […] run so insensibly, by so many shades and transitions one into the other, that it is impossible to separate them by any but very arbitrary limits.”
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That Blumenbach's view should be followed, and that his Simia troglodytes as published by Blumenbach in 1779 shall be the type species of the genus Pan and, since it was the oldest available name for the chimpanzee, be u
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Died 1840-01-22.
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In Göttingen, where he is buried in the Albani cemetery
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And elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1831
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Elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1813, appointed physician to the royal family in Hanover (German: Obermedizinalrat) by the prince regent in 1816, made a knight-commander of the Guelph
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By the surgeon William Lawrence, and again, with improvements and additions, by William Coulson in 1827
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1794).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1793).
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Born 1752-05-11.
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