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    Franz Josef Gall (German: [gal]; 9 March 1758 – 22 August 1828) was a German neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization...
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    disorders and dysfunctions in the brain. Neuroanatomist and physiologist Franz Joseph Gall made major progress in understanding the brain. He theorized that...
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    discredited by empirical research. Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796, the discipline was influential in the 19th century, especially...
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  • Franz Gall may refer to: Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), German neuroanatomist Franz Gall (general) (1884–1944), German World War II general This disambiguation...
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  • composer Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718), sculptor and stuccoist Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828)...
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  • Cranioscopy is a term created by Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), a German neuroanatomist and physiologist who was a pioneer in the study of the localization...
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    the chief proponents of phrenology, which was developed c. 1800 by Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). Spurzheim was born near Trier, Germany, on 31 December...
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    anatomist Franz Joseph Gall. Other popular treatments included physiognomy—the study of the shape of the face—and mesmerism, developed by Franz Anton Mesmer—designed...
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    Phrase Origins. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 9780965379458. Dr. Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), founder of the 'science' of phrenology, gave support...
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    to the field of phrenology, the neuroscientific field developed by Franz Joseph Gall that examines the relationship between mental ability and brain structure...
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  • Gareth Evans Carrie Figdor Owen Flanagan Jerry Fodor Harry Frankfurt Franz Joseph Gall Shaun Gallagher Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford Tamar Gendler Brie...
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    Haydn's skull (category Joseph Haydn)
    Peter and Rosenbaum were acquainted with and admired the work of Franz Joseph Gall, a leading phrenologist. Of particular interest to phrenology was...
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    living or extinct populations.[citation needed] The German physician Franz Joseph Gall in around 1800 formulated the theory of phrenology, which attempted...
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  • lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732) 1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758) 1850 – Nikolaus...
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    to the 19th century movement called phrenology and its founder Franz Joseph Gall. Gall claimed that mental faculties could be associated with specific...
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    personality characteristics, was created around 1800 by German physician Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim, and was widely popular in the 19th century in...
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  • described the role of electricity in nerves of dissected frogs. In 1808, Franz Joseph Gall studied and published work on phrenology. Phrenology was the faulty...
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  • 1791) 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800) 1758 – Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828) 1763 – William Cobbett...
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  • August 8 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist (b. 1743) August 22 – Franz Joseph Gall, German phrenologist (b. 1758) August 23 – John Foster, 1st Baron...
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  • French chemist (died 1836) March 9 – Franz Joseph Gall, German-born neuroanatomist (died 1828) March 14 – Franz Bauer, Moravian-born botanical illustrator...
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  • the original description of the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Franz Joseph Gall (with Johann Spurzheim) begins publishing Anatomie et physiologie...
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  • to the 19th-century movement called phrenology and its founder Franz Joseph Gall. Gall claimed that the individual mental faculties could be associated...
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    the head and thus of the skull. At the turn of the 19th century, Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1822) developed "cranioscopy" (Ancient Greek kranion: skull...
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    producing studies of physiognomy (see Johann Kaspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall) and the science of phrenology which linked attributes of the mind...
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    determined by the shape of the scalp. In the early 19th century, Franz Joseph Gall and J. G. Spurzheim believed that the human brain was localized into...
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    (motor cortex), and vision (visual cortex), was first proposed by Franz Joseph Gall in 1810. Evidence for functionally distinct areas of the brain (and...
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  • necessary to verify this technique as an appropriate treatment. In 1825, Franz Joseph Gall mentioned a "musical organ" in a specific region of the human brain...
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  • theory of brain structure developed by the German physician, Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). Gall argued that the brain is divided into a large number of functional...
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    cerebral localization – whose views derived from the phrenology of Franz Joseph Gall – and their opponents led by Pierre Flourens. Phrenologists believed...
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    (1731–1803). One of Stoll's better known students was phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). Stoll is remembered for his epidemiological and systematic...
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