Charles Davenport

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Charles Benedict Davenport, 1921

Charles Benedict Davenport (born June 1, 1866 in Stamford , Connecticut , † February 18, 1944 ) was an American biologist and eugenicist .

Life

Charles Davenport was a graduate of Harvard University . In 1898 he became director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York , where he opened an institute of eugenics called the Eugenics Record Office in 1910 , which advocated government-enforced sterilization until it closed in 1939 . As a result of his research, he propagated the deportation of all American blacks with the aim of preventing “racial mixing” and also worked with leading Nazis. Davenport was a contributor to the magazine for human heredity and constitutional doctrine published from 1935 by Günther Just and Karl Heinrich Bauer . In 1939 he wrote an article for the Festschrift for the German anthropologist Otto Reche , who campaigned for the previous "cleansing" of the conquered territories in the Soviet Union from all locals in the course of the Second World War . In 1944 Davenport died of pneumonia .

In 1895 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1912 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1928 Davenport was elected President of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations to succeed Leonard Darwin ; In 1932 he was followed by Ernst Rüdin .

Trivia

In the series The Man in the High Castle , which takes place in a fictional parallel world , there is a gynecological clinic in New York that bears his name and is attended by a protagonist.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory .
  2. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), pp. 148 and 171.

literature

  • Edwin Black: War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race , (New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003).

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personal data
SURNAME Davenport, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davenport, Charles Benedict (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist and eugenicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Stamford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1944