Josiah C. Nott

Josiah Clark Nott

Josiah Clark Nott (born March 31, 1804 in Columbia , South Carolina , † March 31, 1873 in Mobile , Alabama ) was an American doctor and racial theorist.

Life

Josiah Nott was born in South Carolina , the son of the politician and judge Abraham Nott . He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in medicine in 1827 and spent time in Paris. He moved to Mobile , Alabama in 1833 and began practicing.

Nott is believed to be the first to link the insects to the outbreak of malaria, a disease that was a huge problem in the southern states. In 1850 he published the work Yellow Fever Contrasted with Bilious Fever and attacked the existing miasma theory . Nott lost four of his sons to malaria in September 1853. Nott was influenced by the racial theories of Samuel George Mortons (1799-1851). He collected hundreds of different human skulls from around the world in order to classify them. In his opinion, a larger skull spoke for a higher intelligence. Also, in his opinion, the common races could not have a common origin - this theory came from Morton. George Gliddon (1809-1857) supported him in this thesis. Both believed that God created man, but in different races. He saw no contradiction in this to the creation story of the Bible. Adam was, in his opinion, white and God created other races as well. Nott, who kept nine slaves himself, claimed that " the negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a state of slavery." " ). 1856 committed Nott Henry Hotze to Arthur de Gobineau racialist font Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines translate (1853-1855). Hotze's translation was entitled: The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races .

Charles Darwin rejected Nott and Gliddon's creationist and polygenic (independently unrelated, created races) theory. Humans have a common origin and the different races can be traced back to one tribe.

During the Civil War he served as a medical officer in the Confederate Army and lost both sons in the war. He died in 1873 and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.

Works

Sketch of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever of 1847, in Mobile. In: The Charleston Medical Journal and Review. Vol. 3, No. 1, 1848, ISSN 1433-3570 , pp. 1-21 .
Yellow Fever Contrasted with Bilious Fever. Reasons for Believing It a Disease Sui Generis. Its mode of propagation. Remote cause. Probable Insect or Animalcular Origin. In: The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. 4, 1848, ISSN 0097-1790 , pp. 563-601.
Two Lectures on the Connection between the Biblical and Physical History of Man. Delivered by Invitation, from the Chair of Political Economy, Etc. of the Louisiana University in December, 1848. Bartlett & Welford, New York NY 1849.
An Essay on the Natural History of Mankind. Viewed in Connection with Negro Slavery. Delivered Before the Southern Rights Association, December 14, 1850. Dade, Thompson, Mobile AL 1851.
with George R. Gliddon : Types of Mankind, or ethnological Researches based upon the ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of races and upon their natural geographical philological and biblical History. Illustrated by Selection from the inedited Papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional Contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, HF Patterson. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia PA 1854.
Contributions to: Indigenous Races of the Earth, or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry. Including Monographs on special Departments of Philology, Icongraphy, Cranioscopy, Palaeontology, Pathology, Archeology, Comparative Geography, and Natural History. Contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aitken Meigs. With Communications from Jos. Leidy and L. Agassiz. Presenting fresh Investigations, Documents, and Materials by JC Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia PA 1857.

Individual evidence

^ Benjamin E. Smith (Ed.): The Century Cyclopedia of Names. A pronouncing and etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archeology, Fiction, etc., etc., etc. (= Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. Vol. 9). Century Co., New York NY 1904.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Josiah Clark Nott, MD (1804-1873) . In: Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame . Archived from the original on July 23, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 20, 2008. @1@ 2

↑ Elli Chernin: Josiah Clark Nott, insects, and yellow fever. In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Series 2, Vol. 59, No. 9, November 1983, ISSN 0028-7091 , pp. 790-802, PMID 6140039 , PMC 1911699 (free full text).

^ David Keane: Caste-based discrimination in international human rights law. Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-7172-5 , pp. 91-92.

^ Paul M. Blowers: Entering "This Sublime and Blessed Amphitheater". Contemplation of Nature and Interpretation of the Bible in the Patristic Period. In: Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote (Ed.): Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions, up to 1700 (= Brill's Series in Church History. Vol. 36, 1). Volume 1. Brill, Leiden et al. 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-17187-9 , pp. 147-176, here pp. 151-154, doi : 10.1163 / ej.9789004171916.i-782.34 .

↑ Adam Dewbury: The American School and Scientific Racism in Early American Anthropology. In: Histories of Anthropology Annual. Vol. 3, ISSN 1557-637X , pp. 121-147, here p. 142 , doi : 10.1353 / haa.0.0026 .

^ Lonnie A. Burnett: Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist. Selected writings on revolution, recognition, and race. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa AL 2008, ISBN 978-0-8173-1620-4 , p. 5.

^ Charles Darwin : The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex . John Murray, London 1871, p. 217.

personal data
SURNAME	Nott, Josiah C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nott, Josiah Clark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American doctor and racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	South carolina
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1873
Place of death	Mobile , Alabama

[1] Benjamin E. Smith (Ed.): The Century Cyclopedia of Names. A pronouncing and etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archeology, Fiction, etc., etc., etc. (= Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. Vol. 9). Century Co., New York NY 1904.

[HCHOF-2] Josiah Clark Nott, MD (1804-1873) . In: Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame . Archived from the original on July 23, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 20, 2008. @1@ 2

[3] Elli Chernin: Josiah Clark Nott, insects, and yellow fever. In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Series 2, Vol. 59, No. 9, November 1983, ISSN 0028-7091 , pp. 790-802, PMID 6140039 , PMC 1911699 (free full text).

[4] David Keane: Caste-based discrimination in international human rights law. Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-7172-5 , pp. 91-92.

[5] Paul M. Blowers: Entering "This Sublime and Blessed Amphitheater". Contemplation of Nature and Interpretation of the Bible in the Patristic Period. In: Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote (Ed.): Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions, up to 1700 (= Brill's Series in Church History. Vol. 36, 1). Volume 1. Brill, Leiden et al. 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-17187-9 , pp. 147-176, here pp. 151-154, doi : 10.1163 / ej.9789004171916.i-782.34 .

[6] Adam Dewbury: The American School and Scientific Racism in Early American Anthropology. In: Histories of Anthropology Annual. Vol. 3, ISSN 1557-637X , pp. 121-147, here p. 142 , doi : 10.1353 / haa.0.0026 .

[7] Lonnie A. Burnett: Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist. Selected writings on revolution, recognition, and race. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa AL 2008, ISBN 978-0-8173-1620-4 , p. 5.

[8] Charles Darwin : The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex . John Murray, London 1871, p. 217.