Julius Klaus (race hygienist)

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Julius Klaus (* 1849 ; † 1920 ) was a Swiss engineer , industrialist and racial hygienist .

Life

Julius Klaus was a mechanical engineer from Uster .

Racial Hygiene Foundation at the University of Zurich

In 1922 Klaus founded the Julius Klaus Foundation for Heredity Research, Social Anthropology and Racial Hygiene (today Julius Klaus Foundation for Genetics and Social Anthropology ) with the aim of preparing and implementing “practical reforms to improve the white race”. The foundation popularized racial hygiene ideas and financed research projects at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Zurich . The funding contributed to the fact that Zurich Anthropology became "a pioneering institute in the German-speaking scientific area". Klaus appointed Otto Schlaginhaufen President of the Board of Trustees for life.

The journal Archive of the Julius Klaus Foundation for Heredity Research, Social Anthropology and Racial Hygiene was published from 1925 to 1969 and was continued by the Archive for Genetics from 1971 until its closure in 1979 .

Today "Experts from different disciplines [...] are busy bringing clarity to this oppressive chapter of the history of science ."

The foundation's depot library is now located in the Zurich Central Library .

literature

Contemporary

  • Otto Schlaginhaufen : Julius Klaus (1849–1920). With portrait. In: Archives of the Julius Klaus Foundation. Vol. 1 (1925), H. 1, pp. 3-7.
  • Otto Schlaginhaufen: Julius Klaus and the Julius Klaus Foundation for Heredity Research, Social Anthropology and Racial Hygiene in Zurich. In: Archives of the Julius Klaus Foundation. Vol. 17 (1942), Issue 3/4, pp. 462-464.

Further information

  • Christian Grimm: Research networks. The historical eugenics movement and modern human genomics in comparison. Logos, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8325-3049-5 .
  • Stefan Kühl : The International of Racists. The rise and fall of the international eugenics movement in the 20th century. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-39986-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Julius Klaus Foundation for Genetics and Social Anthropology. Depot library in the Zurich Central Library .
  2. ↑ a b Sascha Renner: Eugenics: Review of a dark side of the history of science. Report on a presentation by Hans-Konrad Schmutz . UZH News, May 14, 2004, accessed on October 3, 2015.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Bickel : Otto Schlaginhaufen (November 8, 1879 to November 14, 1973). In: Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich . Vol. 118 (1973), H. 4, p. 396 f. ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ ZDB -ID 463-7 , accessed on October 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Klaus, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss engineer, industrialist and racial hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH 1849
DATE OF DEATH 1920