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Periodical: Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie.
Unter Mitwirkung vieler Gelehrten.
1843-1845 Quarterly (?) (1 volume a year, divided into 4 undated issues, each with 4 parts)
Heidelberg, Germany. Language: German. Publisher: Karl Gross. Editor: Gustav von Struve and Eduard Hirschfeld; then Struve alone.
1/1, 1843-1845. 36 Kroner.

This was a standard phrenological journal, patterned on and to a considerable extent derived from the Phrenological Journal and Miscellany of Edinburgh, including, among others, a long essay by William Gregory on a case of seeing visions. The first issue carried a letter from G. Combe, the editor of the Scottish journal, instructing Struve on starting a German Phrenological Society and publishing a journal on the subject. Struve (1805-1870) was a Bavarian lawyer, historian and polymath. The journal regularly featured examinations of the "forehead development" of then-notable figures.

Other Sources:ZDB: Heidelberg UB; Freiburg UB; Munchen BSB; Frankfurt/M UB; Marburg FG Geschichte Medizin; Mainz Inst.Gesch.Med; Dresden SLUB, ZB; Leipzig UB; Innsbruck Univ.
Issues:Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie V1 1843
Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie V2 1844
Zeitschrift fur Phrenologie V3 1845
Claude-Generated Themes:   Zeitschrift für Phrenologie is a single-subject German journal of phrenology from roughly the 1840s. Its vocabulary is the classical phrenological canon — Gall, Spurzheim, Combe, Sizer, the reading of cerebral organs — and the sampled matter is exactly what that implies: a review of the phrenological literature, discussion of the science's German reception, and clinical notes including an 1839 skull-surgery case. None of the occult, spiritualist, or magnetic signals the recall panel raises survive scrutiny; several are anachronistic to the journal's early date. It maps cleanly and solely to phrenology and physiognomy.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Phrenology and Physiognomy