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EDWARDS, William Frederic (1776-1842)

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Born: 1776

Died: 1842

Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

Paris 1814, FRS and M Inst of France; worked with MAGENDIE; elected to Academie des Sciences, 1832; founded the Societe Ethnologique de Paris, 1839; lived mostly in Paris; influenced by the nationalist-racist ideas of Augustin Thierry, and relied on phrenology for his racial-craniological theory; supplied G. COMBE with a testimonial on phrenology, 1836. (M. Harris, Rise of Anthropological Theory [1968]: 99; and P. D. Curtin, The Image of Africa [1967].)

Editorial Information

Identifier	360.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	122
Printed page	117
Database ID	1143

Original Transcription

360. EDWARDS, William Frederic (1776-1842), MD Paris 1814, FRS
and M Inst of France; worked with MAGENDIE; elected to Academie
des Sciences, 1832; founded the Societe Ethnologique de Paris, 1839;
lived mostly in Paris; influenced by the nationalist-racist ideas of
Augustin Thierry, and relied on phrenology for his racial-craniological theory; supplied G. COMBE with a testimonial on phrenology, 1836. (M. Harris, Rise of Anthropological Theory [1968]: 99; and
P. D. Curtin, The Image of Africa [1967].)