John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury of, PC ( born April 30, 1834 in London, England, † May 28 1913 in Kingsgate Castle, Broadstairs ) was a British anthropologist.

Life

Lubbock had gone to Eton school, and followed in the titles and dignities of a Baronet ( of Lammas ) at his father 's death in 1865. He was a banker in London, his father had taken him 22 years as a partner, and has conducted multiple improvements in banking. He was also the parliamentary representatives of the University of London, in which he served previously as Vice Chancellor since 1870, Liberal Member of Parliament for Maidstone and since 1880. He is best known by its zoological become, physiological and archaeological work. He was successively President of the Ethnological and Entomological Society, also of the Anthropological Institute and Vice President of the British Association. He was also a corresponding member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory.

Research

On him the terms Palaeolithic and Neolithic go back. He defined the Paleolithic era as the era of the beaten stone, the Neolithic period through the use of cut stone ( stone axes ). With his distinction of the finds from the glacial moraines ( drift ) and the Danish middens he also took the separation between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic anticipate going back to Hodder M. Westropp (1866 ).

In 1900 he was made the basis of merit as politicians and researchers as Baron Avebury to the peer after he had been taken ten years earlier in the Privy Council.

Works

  • Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura. The Ray Society, London, 1873.
  • Prehistoric times, as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1865, 4th edition 1878; ger of Passow, Jena 1874, 2 volumes)
  • The origin of civilization and the primitive condition of man (1870, 4th edition 1881 German Jena 1875)
  • On the origin and metamorphoses of insects (1874; German Jena 1876)
  • On British wild flowers Considered in relation to insects (1875; German Jena 1876)
  • Relations in between plants and insects (1878 )
  • Addresses, political and educational (1879 )
  • Scientific Lectures (1879 )
  • Ants, bees and wasps (1882, 7th Edition 1884, German Leipzig 1883)
  • Fifty years of science (1882 )
  • Flowers, fruits and leaves (1886 )
  • The pleasures of life (1887 )
  • A contribution to our knowledge of seedlings. Popular ed Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, London, 1896.
  • On peace and happiness ( Macmillan 1909)
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