William Frédéric Edwards
William Frédéric Edwards (1777–1842) was a French physiologist, of Jamaican background, who was also a pioneer anthropologist.
Edwards established the concept of ethnologie in France.[1] He was influenced by Amédée Thierry, [2] to whom he addressed his 1829 essay Des caractères physiologiques des races humaines considérés dans leurs rapports avec l'histoire.[3]
Life
He wrote a book on natural history in Bruges, and then a thesis on the physiology of the eye. He became an assistant to François Magendie.[4]
Works
- De l'influence des agens physiques sur la vie (1824). English translation by Thomas Hodgkin.
Notes
- ^ Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard (editors), Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940 (2008), p. 53;Google Books.
- ^ Martin S. Staum, Labeling People: French scholars on society, race and empire, 1815-1848 (2003), p. 129; Google Books.
- ^ Staffan Müller-Wille, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Heredity Produced: at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870 (2007), p. 363; Google Books.
- ^ George W. Stocking, Jr. (editor), Bones, Bodies, Behavior: essays on biological anthropology (1990), pp. 21–2; Google Books.