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Johann Gaspar Spurzheim: The St. Paul of Phrenology (2020)

van Wyhe, John (Author)

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 29
Issue: 1
Pages: 5-16
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0964704X.2019.1683430

DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2019.1683430

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Science and culture Phrenology 19th century Combe, George Gall, Franz Joseph Spurzheim, Johann Kaspar

Franz Joseph Gall’s wayward discipline Johann Gaspar Spurzheim greatly modified Gall’s original system and introduced it to the English-speaking world. Through an active program of itinerant lecturing, publishing and converting disciplines, Spurzheim made phrenology. He also developed a philosophy of following the laws of nature that was adopted and further promoted by his disciple, George Combe. Combe’s book The Constitution of Man (1828) became one of the best-selling works of its genre in the nineteenth century. Thus Spurzheim, never particularly original, exercised an enormous influence on nineteenth-century culture.

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