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Franz Weidenreich
German anatomist (1873–1948).
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German anatomist (1873–1948).
Franz Weidenreich (7 June 1873 – 11 July 1948) was a German-American anatomist and physical anthropologist. He held chairs of anatomy at Strasbourg and Heidelberg and founded the Institute for Physical Anthropology at the University of Frankfurt, before emigrating in the 1930s and working successively in Peking and New York. He is best known for his work on human evolution, in particular the Ehringsdorf Neanderthal and the Peking Man, and for ideas that laid the groundwork for the multiregional hypothesis in palaeoanthropology.
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German anatomist (1873–1948).
Career and education
Employers and institutions
Goethe University Frankfurt · Heidelberg University · University of Chicago
Memberships
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Leadership and official positions
professor
Education
University of Strasbourg
Places of work
Heidelberg
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