Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt a.M. Main and died March 22,1832 in Weimar. He was a poet, playwright, and novelist but also a natural philosopher, scientist, and minister (Geheimer Rat) of the duchy of Sachsen-WeimarEisenach. His parents—Katharine Elisabeth nee Textor and Johann Kaspar Goethe, a lawyer who held
Considered the “father of physical anthropology,” the famous German physiologist, anatomist, and naturalist began his lustrous academic career at the University of Jenna. Perfecting his studies in literature, rhetoric, and natural history (archaeology), Blumenbach finished his remaining medical studies at the University of Gottingen. Under the auspices of Heyne and Buttner, Blumenbach was offered the