List of Famous people with last name Blumenbach

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

First Name Johann
Last Name Blumenbach
Born on May 11, 1752
Died on January 22, 1840 (aged 87)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He was also important as a race theorist. Nicolaas Rupke, Gerhard Lauer (Pub.): Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Race and Natural History, 1750–1850. London/New York: Routledge, 2019; here particularly the essays by Thomas Junker: Blumenbach’s theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind and Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke.

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