Eugène Pittard
Eugène Pittard (born June 5, 1867 in Plainpalais (now Geneva ), † May 11, 1962 in Morigny-Champigny , France) was a Swiss anthropologist .
biography
Pittard occupied the first chair in anthropology at the University of Geneva , of which he was rector from 1940 to 1942. Pittard dealt with physical anthropology , especially somatology . He headed the Geneva Ethnographic Museum , which he founded in 1901, as a curator from 1910 and as director from 1935 to 1952.
During the First World War "he advocated the thesis that the diversity of peoples in the Balkans was detrimental to the formation of nation states".
Publications (selection)
- Les Races et l'Histoire. L'Évolution de l'humanité
- Les Races Belligérantes. Esquisses anthropologiques. I. Les Alliés: les Français, les Belges, les Anglais, les Russes, les Italiens, les Serbes, les Monténégrins.
literature
- Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society 142, 1962, pp. 231–235.
- Documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Genève 5-13, 1909–64, with catalog raisonné.
- Jane Botbol: Eugène Pittard, un savant du XIXème siècle. Licensed thesis, University of Geneva, 1996.
- Roland Aegerter : Swiss science and Eastern Europe. 1998, pp. 144-150.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugène Pittard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Eugène Pittard in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Carsten Goehrke : Pittard, Eugène. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pittard, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plainpalais (now Geneva ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1962 |
| Place of death | Morigny-Champigny , France |