Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens

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Museum of Anthropology, ca. 1900

The Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens is an educational museum in Athens, Greece. It was founded at the University of Athens in 1886. The museum was initially established as part of the university's medical school, in its department of histology. [1] The museum's founder, Klon Stephanos, has been described as the "father of physical anthropology" in Greece, [2] Under Stephanos, the museum emphasized its function as research laboratory, rather than as a venue for public displays. It received many early contributions from the medical faculty in the area of anatomical pathology, as well as becoming an important repository within Greece for historical anthropological specimens that had in the past been sent to foreign institutions. [3]

Stephanos died in 1915, and Ioannis Koumaris became the second director of the museum, a position he held until 1950. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Frank Spencer, ed., History of Physical Anthropology, vol. 1 (Taylor & Francis, 1997), ISBN   978-0815304906, p. 453. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  2. ↑ Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Linda Fibiger, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation: An International Guide to Laws and Practice in the Excavation and Treatment of Archaeological Human Remains (Taylor & Francis, 2011), ISBN   978-1136879562, p. 173. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  3. ↑ Sevasti Trubeta, Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s) (Brill Publishers, 2013), ISBN   978-9004257672, pp. 58ff & passim. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  4. ↑ Marius Turda, "Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 (Central European University Press, 2007), ISBN   978-9637326813, p. 124. Excerpts available at Google Books.

Sevasti Trubeta, »Griechisch-deutsche rassenanthropologische Begegnungen (1886–1950)«, in: Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis und Miltos Pechlivanos (Hg.), Compendium der deutsch-griechischen Verflechtungen, 20.10.2020, URI: https://comdeg.eu/compendium/essay/99306/.

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