Alexander Walker
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1779 – 1852
Who was Alexander Walker?
Alexander Walker was a Scottish physiologist, aesthetician, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist.
He was the founder and editor of The European Review, a journal published in English, French, German and Italian, with many eminent contributors, such as Goethe and Cuvier. He was a friend of Benjamin Constant and translated his work.
However he was most famous for his best-selling works linking physiology and aesthetics: Physiognomy, founded on Physiology, Beauty, illustrated chiefly by ananalysis and classification of Beauty in Women, and Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce. A great deal of what he wrote in this line is now considered to belong to the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology.
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