Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Scientist, Academic
1752 – 1840
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Who was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach?
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to the classification of what he called human races, of which he determined there to be five.
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