Georg Glowatzki

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Georg Glowatzki (born March 11, 1924 in Breslau ; † 2008 in Bern-Liebefeld ) was a German anthropologist and forensic doctor in Bern .

Life

In 1924 Glowatzki was born as a child of the chief police officer Georg Glowatzki and his wife Hedwig, b. Russeck, born. In 1969 he became head of the State Anthropological Collection in Munich , initially on a temporary basis, until 1977. He then went to Bern and worked as an anthropologist, coroner and journalist.

He was married to Marie Louise Mullis, with whom he also published together.

Work area

Glowatzki conducted research at the Institute for Anthropology and Human Genetics at the University of Munich, among other things, on the question of the existence of human races. He came to the conclusion that races are not static categories, but dynamic groups of people that change over time.

Works

  • Population genetic studies on the question of the distribution of haptoglobin types in Greece compared to other European and Asian populations , Diss., 1962.
  • A thousand years like a breath - where do people come from, Stuttgart 1968.
  • The races of humans: origin and spread , Stuttgart 1976.
  • Scientific anthropometry and anthropological measurement methods and their application, in: Der measured Mensch, Munich 1973
  • On the trail of our ancestors: Darwin and the consequences, beginnings and methods of evolutionary research , 1979
  • Magic and Medicine , Bern, 1981. UNIPRESS reports on research and science
  • Magical thinking in medicine and its anthropological background , in: Irmgard Oepen, Otto Prokop (eds.), Outsider methods in medicine - origins, dangers, consequences, Darmstadt 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfarrblatt, weekly newspaper of the Roman Catholic. Parishes of the Canton of Bern ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.4 MB), old part of the canton, dated May 17, 2008, p. 10: "We said goodbye to ... Georg Glowatzki-Mullis from Liebefeld.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kathbern.ch
  2. ↑ Website of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sapm.mwn.de
  3. ^ Wilhelm Schneidewind, collection of materials on racism (PDF; 335 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Glowatzki, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and coroner in Bern
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 2008
Place of death Bern-Liebefeld