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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

1752 - 1840

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, 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". He was one of the first to explore the study of the human being as an aspect of natural history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach is the 12th most popular archaeologist (up from 14th in 2019), the 766th most popular biography from Germany (up from 881st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Archaeologist.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach is most famous for his work in the field of anthropometry, which is the study of the body and its measurements. He devised a system of measuring the skull and other parts of the body and created a classification system for races.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 12 out of 151. Before him are Arthur Evans, Den, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Colin Renfrew, Semerkhet, and Marija Gimbutas. After him are Nynetjer, V. Gordon Childe, Isdal Woman, George Smith, Aurel Stein, and Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 6. Before him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Jeongjo of Joseon, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Muzio Clementi, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Thomas Chatterton, and Jacques Roux. Among people deceased in 1840, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 10. Before him are Frederick William III of Prussia, Siméon Denis Poisson, Emperor Kōkaku, Lucien Bonaparte, Jacques MacDonald, and Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom. After him are Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Louis de Bonald, and Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 766 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Klinsmann (1964), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), Berti Vogts (1946), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), and George V of Hanover (1819). After him are Werner Mölders (1913), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Albert of Brandenburg (1490), Anna Seghers (1900), and Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ranks 3. Before him are Theodor Mommsen (1817), and Heinrich Schliemann (1822). After him are Isdal Woman (1940), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), and Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827).

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