Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (31 December 1776 – 10 November 1832) was a German physician who became one of the chief proponents of phrenology, which was developed...
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inches in circumference was not able to function normally. In 1800, Johann Spurzheim attended one of Gall's public lectures and was hired as an assistant...
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Physiognomy (section Johann Kaspar Lavater)
was created around 1800 by German physician Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim, and was widely popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United...
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1763 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) 1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832) 1798 – Friedrich...
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mind, logos: study) by his student Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832), who wrote extensively on the "Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's physiognomical System". Physiognomy...
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30 – William Drayton, American politician (d. 1846) December 31 – Johann Spurzheim, German physician (d. 1832) January 6 – James Gabriel Montresor, British...
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as it pertained to the individual. It was Gall's collaborator Johann Gaspar Spurzheim who would popularize the term "phrenology". In 1809 Gall began...
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Charles Seringe, French physician and botanist (died 1858) December 31 – Johann Spurzheim, German physician (died 1832) February 18 – Lady Anne Monson, English-born...
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of the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Franz Joseph Gall (with Johann Spurzheim) begins publishing Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général...
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phrenology and publicly criticising its principal European exponents, Johann Spurzheim and Franz Joseph Gall. He was born on 19 April 1786 in Forres in northern...
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clinical importance of psychiatric disorders. In 1816, the phrenologist Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832) visited Edinburgh and lectured on his craniological and...
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mind, logos: study) by his student Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832), who wrote extensively on "Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's physiognomical System." These all...
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attributed the rise of interest in phrenology during the 1830s to Johann Spurzheim and George Combe.: 178 In its first issue, the journal explained that...
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clinical importance of psychiatric disorders. In 1816, the phrenologist Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832) visited Edinburgh and lectured on his craniological and...
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30 – William Drayton, American politician (d. 1846) December 31 – Johann Spurzheim, German physician (d. 1832) 1777 * January – William Barton, English...
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of the phrenological theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828) and Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832), and along with Louis Delasiauve (1804–1893) and Jacques-Étienne...
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specimens in 1817, and in 1821 began to cast heads from life. In 1829 Johann Spurzheim referred to his collection as data supporting phrenology. Franz Joseph...
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first to examine and believe the doctrines of Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim. The increasing interest in the science of phrenology was greatly the...
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"craniological" aspect was greatly extended by his one-time disciple, Johann Spurzheim, who coined the term phrenology and saw it as a means of advancing...
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may have led to his interest in neuroanatomy. In 1834, he revised Johann Spurzheim’s book, Anatomy of the Brain. Stedman noted in the book's Preface that...
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Gall and Johann Spurzheim. While in Edinburgh he became friends with the phrenologists George and Andrew Combe; he had an introduction to Spurzheim through...
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George Douglas Cameron of the Liverpool Phrenological Society, Dr. Johann Spurzheim of the London Society of Phrenology, and Dr.George Combe founder of...
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Combe, the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim. Henry Shipton Drayton became editor of the Phrenological journal for...
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His advocacy of the phrenological theories of Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim involved him in a sharp debate with medical colleagues there, and he...
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notice of the poem Ode to Spurzheim by Grenville Mellen, noting that Johann Spurzheim is hardly mentioned despite the dedication "Corrected Proofs, By H...
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continental phrenologist, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim. Spurzheim was an anatomist and a former pupil of Franz Josef Gall. Spurzheim's brief tour and death popularized...
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in promoting knowledge of medicine. The public autopsy of Dr. Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, advocate of phrenology, was conducted after his death, and his...
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no end, though he contemplated offering his head for dissection by Johann Spurzheim for examination by John Pierpont; "aside from the evidence it affords...
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phrenology. Later he met Johann Spurzheim, and studied with him the anatomy and physiology of the brain. Forster accompanied Spurzheim to Edinburgh, where...
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and comparative anatomy". In Eling, Paul; Finger, Stanley (eds.). Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 154–172. doi:10...
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