Luschan, Felix von, 1854-1924

LC control no.	no 99083150
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Luschan, Felix von, 1854-1924 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Luschan, F. v. (Felix von), 1854-1924 Ritter von Luschan, Felix, 1854-1924 Von Luschan, Felix, 1854-1924
Other standard no.	Q114416
Associated country	Austria Germany
Associated place	Paris (France)
Birth date	1854-08-11
Death date	1924-02-07
Place of birth	Hollabrunn (Hollabrunn, Austria)
Place of death	Berlin (Germany)
Field of activity	Benin--Antiquities Craniometry Physical anthropology
Affiliation	Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany) Museum für Völkerkunde (Berlin, Germany) Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde zu Berlin Universität Wien Allgemeines Krankenhaus (Vienna, Austria) Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna, Austria) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene
Profession or occupation	Physicians Museum directors Medical teaching personnel Physical anthropologists
Found in	Die Altertümer von Benin, 1968: t.p. (Felix von Luschan) OCLC database, 11/16/99 (hdg: Luschan, Felix von, 1854-1924) Buschmann-Einritzungen auf Strausseneiern, 1922-1923: p. 31 (F. v. Luschan) Wikipedia, June 13, 2024 (Felix von Luschan; Felix Ritter von Luschan (Ritter was a title before 1919, 'Knight', now regarded as part of the surname); born 11 August 1854, Oberhollabrunn, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire; died February 7, 1924, Berlin, Weimar Germany; nationality: Austrian; attended the Akademisches Gymnasium, Vienna, then studied medicine at the University of Vienna and anthropology in Paris, with an emphasis on craniometry; doctorate 1878; army doctor in Austro-Hungarian occupied Bosnia; medical assistant at Vienna General Hospital from 1880, and lecturer (Privatdozent) at University of Vienna in 1882; in January 1886 he became an assistant to director Adolf Bastian at the Königliches Museum für Volkerkunde, Berlin (now the Ethnological Museum); upon Bastian's death in 1905 he became director of the Africa and Oceania department; acquired important collections of Benin antiquities, ivory carvings, and bronze figures; he also led a collection campaign of bones and skulls of thousands of people from across European empires, including human remains from the Herero-Nama genocide in 1906; in 1909 he gave up his duties at the Völkerkundemuseum when he was appointed tenured professor at the Berlin Charité medical school; in 1911 he became holder of the first chair of anthropology at Berlin's Frederick William University (now Humboldt University of Berlin); he is remembered for creating the von Luschan's chromatic scale for classifying skin color; joined the German Society for Racial Hygiene in 1908, but in his works he rejected the rising ideas of "scientific racism" and stressed the equality of human races; died in Berlin at age 69, buried at his summer residence in Millstatt, Austria)
Associated language	ger