Emil Ludwig Schmidt

Emil Ludwig Schmidt ( born April 7, 1837 in Obereichstätt, † October 22, 1906 in Jena ) was a German anthropologist and ethnologist.

Career

Schmidt began his studies in 1857 in Jena and Bonn. In 1861 he became the MD et phil. doctorate at the University of Berlin. In 1862 he was first assistant at the surgical clinic of Bonn, before he was appointed in the same year as Head of the Alfried Krupp Hospital in Essen and practitioner of hypochondriacal Alfred Krupp. 1869-1870 and 1876 undertook Schmidt anthropological expeditions to North America and 1875 to Egypt. In 1885, his Habilitation at the University of Leipzig; it was the first in anthropology in Germany. In 1889 he was appointed associate professor in 1896 of Anthropology and Ethnology, honorary professor just there. 1889 to 1890 he undertook a new expedition to South India and Ceylon.

1900 gave Schmidt of the University of Leipzig its more than 1,000 skulls comprehensive anthropological collection. In the cross section of the Präpariersaalbereiches the University of Leipzig is located is part of the Teaching Collection macroscopic specimens at the Institute of Anatomy, the so-called " skull gallery " with an extensive anthropological skull collection. It consists essentially of a donation from Schmidt. He wanted to give his valuable collection originally the Institute of Anatomy. Due to a rift with Wilhelm His, the then director, but the collection was in 1901 at the Faculty of Arts. It was later merged with the Carus collection and adopted in 1918 by the Institute of Anatomy. In 1930 the relocation of the Ethnological- Anthropological Institute. Today, both collections are in the Leipzig anatomy. The skull collection includes: 1068 skulls from 5 continents, 135 mummy heads, 60 prehistoric skull casts from the Schmidt collection and 170 Skull and plaster casts of Carus collection.

Major works

  • The earliest evidence of humans in North America, Hamburg 1887
  • Anthropological methods, Leipzig 1888
  • The prehistory of North America within the United States, Brunswick 1894
  • Travel in South India, Leipzig 1894
  • Ceylon, Berlin 1897

Familial

Schmidt was married to Cecilia Lotte Eleonore Overbeck (1856 - after 1920 ), daughter of classical archaeologist Johannes Overbeck ( 1826-1895 ).

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