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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...
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  • Göttingen school of history – notably Christoph Meiners in 1785 and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1795[page needed]—it had originally referred in a narrow sense...
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  • pp. 39–55 Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich; Bendyshe, Thomas (26 October 1865). The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ... Anthropological...
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    a Malay race was originally proposed by the German physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), and classified as a brown race. Malay is a loose...
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    Carl Linnaeus, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach). The first prominent physical anthropologist, the German physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) of...
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    Robert Kerr in 1792 then classified to its own genus Mammut by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1799, thus making it amongst the first fossil mammal genera...
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  • lacking in virtue".: 34  His more influential Göttingen colleague Johann Friedrich Blumenbach borrowed the term Mongolian for his division of humanity into...
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  • patterns and derogatory stereotypes. In 1775, the naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach asserted that "The white color holds the first place, such as...
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    century. The German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) argued "for human diversity alonglines of racial...
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    more inclined to give humans a special place in classification; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the first edition of his Manual of Natural History (1779)...
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    January 1804. Among his pupils were Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Albrecht Thaer, and Johann Christian Wiegleb. He wrote approximately...
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    Göttingen). One of his teachers was the famous natural scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840). He became a private tutor (Privatdozent) in Göttingen...
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    of the kingdom Animalia, the name could not be used for both. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach published the replacement name Ornithorhynchus in 1800. However...
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    the late 1870s. The chimpanzee was named Simia troglodytes by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1776. The species name troglodytes is a reference to the Troglodytae...
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  • scientific thinkers including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Immanuel Kant argued that humans shared a common origin...
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    Woolly mammoth (category Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)
    time. Following Cuvier's identification, the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach gave the woolly mammoth its scientific name, Elephas primigenius...
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    Island, use the Malay idiom. — Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, translated by Thomas Bendyshe...
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  • The earliest recorded use of the term "Negroid" came in 1859. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a scholar at the then modern Göttingen University developed...
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    mathematician and scientist Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804), naturalist, botanist, entomologist and malacologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) , zoologist...
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    Between 1779 and 1780, Reil became acquainted with the scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach while Reil was studying medicine in Göttingen. From 1788 to 1810...
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    Irish elk (category Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)
    the island. It was first formally named as Alce gigantea by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his Handbuch der Naturgeschichte in 1799, with Alce being...
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    interested in natural history through the lectures of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Friedrich Tiedemann. He was appointed Coenraad Jacob Temminck's...
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    Chimpanzee (category Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)
    differences between the African and Asian apes. The German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach classified the chimpanzee as Simia troglodytes by 1775. Another...
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    Göttingen where he heard among others Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Johann Beckmann and Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren. After finishing...
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  • "black", pilis atris "coal-black hair" for Africans. The views of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach on the categorization of the major races of mankind developed...
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    the time. Following Cuvier's identification, German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach gave the woolly mammoth its scientific name, Elephas primigenius...
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    its members at that time] Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1791.) "Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Vierte auflage." Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, xii+704+[33]...
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    Woolly rhinoceros (category Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)
    species Rhinoceros lenenesis (after the Lena River). In 1799, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied rhinoceros bones from the collection of the University...
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    Central chimpanzee (category Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)
    Troglodytes is Greek for 'cave-dweller', and was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his Handbuch der Naturgeschichte (Handbook of Natural History)...
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    African bush elephant (category Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)
    "Living African elephants belong to two species: Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) and Loxodonta cyclotis (Matschie, 1900)". Elephant. 2 (4): 1–4...
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