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Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1776-12-31 - 1832-11-10

Biography

J. G. Spurzheim (1776-1832), German physician.

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1000
Abstract:

A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.

Dates: circa 1860
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures

Note : London, to Peter Mark Roget, [1814?]

 Part of Collection — Box 49: [Barcode: 39002137225240], Folder: GROUP 1660, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ANS with address leaf.

Dates: [1814?]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > S > SPURZHEIM, J. G. (JOHANN GASPAR), 1776-1832

Charles Edward Sargent papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1069
Abstract:

Four-volume typed manuscript, "A Reexamination of the Doctrine of Gall and Spurzheim in the Light of Recent Science," expounding the teachings of phrenology and attempting to reconcile them with contemporary psychology and evolutionary philosophy. Expanded from Charles Edward Sargent's 1905 Yale Ph.D. thesis.

Dates: 1905-1935
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Charles Edward Sargent papers