Karl Otto Henckel

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Karl Otto Henckel , also Carlos Henckel (* 1899 in Germany ; † 1984 ) was a German anatomist , anthropologist ( physical anthropology ) and racial theorist .

After receiving his doctorate, Henckel worked in Munich, among others . He completed his habilitation in 1927 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a thesis on the history of the development of the half-ape skull .

Henckel taught in Freiburg and carried out investigations in Palestine and Württemberg . In 1929 he became a professor at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, where he researched the Mapuche , among other things .

His guideline for situs exercises on corpses , edited with Wilhelm Pfitzner , appeared in eleven editions by 1946. In 1950 he contributed two chapters on the bioanthropology of the Mapuches to the Handbook of South American Indians of the Smithsonian Institution .

literature

  • Ilse Schwidetzky : A German anatomist-anthropologist in Chile: Carlos Henckel Christoph 1899-1984. A contribution to the history of German and Chilean anthropology. In: Homo . 1985, Vol. 36, No. 1-2, pp. 95-100 (2 p. 2/3) ISSN  0018-442X

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b New Mexico Anthropologist . University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology . Volume 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, 1938, p. 69.
  2. ↑ Anne Cottebrune : The Plannable Man: The German Research Foundation and Human Heredity, 1920-1970. David Brown Book Company, 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09099-5 , p. 33
  3. ^ Journal of Morphology and Anthropology . Volume 44. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1952, p. 54.
  4. ^ A b Francisco Rothhammer, Elena Llop (eds.): Poblaciones chilenas: cuatro décadas de investigaciones bioantropológicas. Editorial Universitaria, 2004, ISBN 956-11-1713-4 , p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Henckel, Karl Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henckel, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist, anthropologist (physical anthropology) and racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1984