ANTHROPOLOGIST

Adolf Bernhard Meyer

1840 - 1911

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Adolf Bernhard Meyer (11 October 1840, Hamburg – 22 August 1911, Dresden) was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum (now the natural history museum or Museum für Tierkunde Dresden) in Dresden. He worked on comparative anatomy and appreciated the ideas of evolution, and influenced many German scientists by translating into German the 1858 papers by Darwin and Wallace which first proposed evolution by natural selection. Influenced by the writings of Wallace with whom he interacted, he travelled to Southeast Asia, and collected specimens and recorded his observations from the region. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Bernhard Meyer is the 47th most popular anthropologist (up from 83rd in 2019), the 3,602nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,268th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 47 out of 93. Before him are Edwin H. Colbert, John Lloyd Stephens, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Paolo Mantegazza, Lubor Niederle, and Louis Dumont. After him are Ralph Linton, Edmund Leach, Alfred Sauvy, Bengt Danielsson, Gilberto Freyre, and Johann Carl Fuhlrott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 59. Before him are William Graham Sumner, Thomas Nast, Helena Modjeska, Gall, Titu Maiorescu, and Francišak Bahuševič. After him are Aisha Taymur, Ferdinand Sarrien, Émile Duclaux, Victorino de la Plaza, Célestine Galli-Marié, and Yaa Asantewaa. Among people deceased in 1911, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 55. Before him are Alexandros Papadiamantis, Ivan Grohar, Fritz von Uhde, Joan Maragall, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, and Thomas Blake Glover. After him are Ellen Swallow Richards, Quanah Parker, Howard Pyle, Florentino Ameghino, Alphonse Legros, and Carolina Coronado.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 3,604 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz John (1872), Carl Humann (1839), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Georg Heinrich von Görtz (1668), Henriette Sontag (1806), and Carl Gustav Witt (1866). After him are Paul Bader (1883), Kornelia Ender (1958), Else Krüger (1915), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), Conrad Albrecht (1880), and August Beer (1825).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Adolf Bernhard Meyer ranks 5. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Birutė Galdikas (1946), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), and Fredrik Barth (1928). After him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Jean Malaurie (1922).

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