Adolf Bastian
1826–1905
German ethnologist. Went to Australia as a ship’s doctor in 1851 and travelled around the world until 1859. Published Der Mensche in Geschichte (1860). Established the Berlin Museum of Ethnography in 1868; the Anthropological Society of Berlin in 1870. Lecturer in ethnology, University of Berlin, from 1868. Opposed the application of Darwinian theory to humans.
Sources
DBE
Tort 1996.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
Tort, Patrick. 1996. Dictionnaire du Darwinisme et de l’evolution. 3 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
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