Petrus Camper information

Petrus Camper
Petrus Camper
	Petrus Camper
Born	11 May 1722; Leiden
Died	7 April 1789 (aged 66); The Hague
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Leiden, Oxford College
Known for	inventing the term "extinct" along with Georges Cuvier to describe the mammoth
	Scientific career
Fields	anatomist; physiologist; philosopher; surgeon (dissection); Draughtsman
Institutions	University of Franeker, Amsterdamse Atheneum, University of Groningen
Doctoral students	Martin van Marum

Petrus Camper FRS (11 May 1722 – 7 April 1789), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy, palaeontology, and the facial angle. He was among the first to mark out an "anthropology," which he distinguished from natural history.^[1] He studied the orangutan, the Javan rhinoceros, and the skull of a mosasaur, which he believed was a whale.

Camper was a celebrity in Europe and became a member of the Royal Society (1750), the Göttingen (1779), and Russian Academy of Sciences (1778), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783), the French (1786) and the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1788). He designed and constructed tools for his patients, and for surgeries. He was an amateur drawer, a sculptor, a patron of art and a conservative, royalist politician. Camper published some lectures containing an account of his craniometrical methods. These laid the foundation of all subsequent work.

^ "Alan J. Barnard, Review Essay: "Anthropology, Race, and Englishness: Changing Notions of Complexion and Character," Eighteenth Century Life 25 (2002): 94-102". Geocities. 23 June 2004. Archived from the original on 23 June 2004.

[1] "Alan J. Barnard, Review Essay: "Anthropology, Race, and Englishness: Changing Notions of Complexion and Character," Eighteenth Century Life 25 (2002): 94-102". Geocities. 23 June 2004. Archived from the original on 23 June 2004.

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Petrus Camper
Petrus Camper
Born	11 May 1722 (1722-05-11) Leiden
Died	7 April 1789 (1789-04-08) (aged 66) The Hague
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Leiden, Oxford College
Known for	inventing the term "extinct" along with Georges Cuvier to describe the mammoth
Scientific career
Fields	anatomist physiologist philosopher surgeon (dissection) Draughtsman
Institutions	University of Franeker, Amsterdamse Atheneum, University of Groningen
Doctoral students	Martin van Marum