Jon Alfred Hansen Mjøen

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Jon Alfred Mjøen, in the 30's
Plate for "Human races" from "Rasehygiene"

Jon Alfred Hansen Mjøen (born July 12, 1860 in Oppdal ; died June 30, 1939 in Vestre Aker ) was a Norwegian chemist, racial biologist and eugenicist. He established a race hygiene institute in Oslo and published the magazine Den Nordiske Race from 1919 to 1932 . According to Samuel Abrahamsen, he was involved in the spread of racist attitudes in Norway like no other Norwegian. He used his influence to campaign for a sterilization law , which was passed by the Norwegian Parliament in 1934.

Works

  • Race hygiene , 1914
  • Germans or Slavs? The Mongolization of Europe , K. Curtius, Berlin 1917
  • Det norske program for lawn hygiene , B. Bentzens Boktrykkeri, 1932
  • Vern våre landegrenser , 1933
  • Lawn hygiene , Jacob Dybwads Forlag, 1938
  • Hormones. Den biokjemiske personlighet , with Arne Y. Brantenberg, 1939

literature

  • Jon Røyne Kyllingstad: Measuring the Master Race: Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945 . Openbookpublishers 2014, ISBN 978-1-909254-54-1
  • Jon Røyne Kyllingstad: Norwegian Physical Anthropology and the Idea of ​​a Nordic Master Race . In: Current Anthropology Vol. 53, No. S5, April 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel Abrahamsen: The Holocaust in Norway . In: Contemporary Views on the Holocaust . Ed .: Randolph L. Braham, Kluwer Nijhoff 1983, ISBN 0-89838-141-X , p. 114.
  2. ^ DG Race: Intellectual Disability: Social Approaches . Mc-Graw Hill 2007, ISBN 978-0335-22137-0 , p. 56 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Mjøen, Jon Alfred Hansen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chemist, racial biologist and eugenicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppdal
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1939
Place of death Vestre Aker