Otto Ammon (Author)
Otto Ammon (born December 7, 1842 in Karlsruhe ; † January 14, 1916 there ) was a German engineer and journalist as well as a private scholar. He carried out statistical surveys and is considered to be the founder of social anthropology in Germany.
life and work
Ammon worked as an engineer from 1863 and as an editor and publisher from 1868. From 1883 he carried out a geographical and geological research of the Roman roads in Baden as well as anthropological research. For example, in 1890 he presented an anthropology of a German country for the first time with his work, which mapped conscripts and middle school students in Baden. From 1887 he was a member of the Karlsruhe Antiquities Association and the Natural Science Association. Later he was a member of the executive committee of the Pan-German Association .
From 1896 to 1899 Otto Ammon and Otto Reuss owned the Badische Landeszeitung. In 1904 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg .
Ammon was an opponent of social democracy and is considered a supporter of the racial school of sociology. In his work "The natural selection in humans" he tried to prove that in the higher social classes there was a significantly higher proportion of members of the "Germanic" type, since, for example, the inherited Germanic bravery would also be reflected in scientific work .
The Ammonian law formulated by him states that members of the Nordic type in particular migrate to the cities, whereby a selection in favor of the light pigmented takes place in the city population.
Fonts (selection)
- Darwinism against social democracy. Hamburg 1891 (digitized version)
- Natural selection in humans. Based on the anthropological studies of the conscripts in Baden and other materials. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1893 (digitized version)
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The social order and its natural foundations. Draft social anthropology for use by all educated people who are concerned with social issues. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1895 (digitized version)
- Second edition, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1896
- Third revised edition, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1900 (digitized)
- On the anthropology of the people of Baden . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1899 (digitized version)
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The importance of the peasant class for the state and society , 1894
- Second edition, Berlin 1906 (digitized version)
literature
- Wilhelm Bernsdorf : Ammon, Otto. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf, Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Vol. 1. 2nd edition, Enke, Stuttgart 1980, pp. 8-9.
- Hilkea Lichtsinn: Otto Ammon and social anthropology. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1987, ISBN 3-8204-1074-0 .
- Karl Saller: Ammon, Otto Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 255 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Ammon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Berndorf: Ammon, Otto , in: ders./Horst bud (eds.): International sociologist Lexikon , Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ²1980, p 8 f.
- ^ Rüdiger vom Bruch : Ammon, Otto. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-11-015714-4 p. 51.
- ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus : The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund 1919-1923 . Leibniz, Hamburg 1970 ISBN 3-87473-000-X p. 36
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammon, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1916 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |