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- Luschan, F. v. (Felix von), 1854-1924
- Ritter von Luschan, Felix, 1854-1924
- Von Luschan, Felix, 1854-1924
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1854-08-11
Death Date
- 1924-02-07
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Germany)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde zu Berlin
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Universität Wien
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Allgemeines Krankenhaus (Vienna, Austria)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna, Austria)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene
Birth Place
- Hollabrunn (Hollabrunn, Austria)
Associated Language
- German
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Benin--Antiquities
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Die Altertümer von Benin, 1968:t.p. (Felix von Luschan)
- found: OCLC database, 11/16/99(hdg: Luschan, Felix von, 1854-1924)
- found: Buschmann-Einritzungen auf Strausseneiern, 1922-1923:p. 31 (F. v. Luschan)
- found: Wikipedia, June 13, 2024(Felix von Luschan; Felix Ritter von Luschan (Ritter was a title before 1919, 'Knight', now regarded as part of the surname); born 11 August 1854, Oberhollabrunn, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire; died February 7, 1924, Berlin, Weimar Germany; nationality: Austrian; attended the Akademisches Gymnasium, Vienna, then studied medicine at the University of Vienna and anthropology in Paris, with an emphasis on craniometry; doctorate 1878; army doctor in Austro-Hungarian occupied Bosnia; medical assistant at Vienna General Hospital from 1880, and lecturer (Privatdozent) at University of Vienna in 1882; in January 1886 he became an assistant to director Adolf Bastian at the Königliches Museum für Volkerkunde, Berlin (now the Ethnological Museum); upon Bastian's death in 1905 he became director of the Africa and Oceania department; acquired important collections of Benin antiquities, ivory carvings, and bronze figures; he also led a collection campaign of bones and skulls of thousands of people from across European empires, including human remains from the Herero-Nama genocide in 1906; in 1909 he gave up his duties at the Völkerkundemuseum when he was appointed tenured professor at the Berlin Charité medical school; in 1911 he became holder of the first chair of anthropology at Berlin's Frederick William University (now Humboldt University of Berlin); he is remembered for creating the von Luschan's chromatic scale for classifying skin color; joined the German Society for Racial Hygiene in 1908, but in his works he rejected the rising ideas of "scientific racism" and stressed the equality of human races; died in Berlin at age 69, buried at his summer residence in Millstatt, Austria)
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- 1999-11-16: new
- 2024-06-22: revised
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