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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:   The Zeitschrift für Phrenologie was a German journal devoted entirely to phrenology, published around the 1840s when the doctrine was at its height in the German-speaking lands. Its vocabulary is the classical canon of the science and almost nothing else: Franz Joseph Gall, who first proposed that mental faculties are localised in distinct organs of the brain and that their development can be read from the skull; Johann Spurzheim, who systematised and popularised the doctrine; and George Combe, whose Constitution of Man carried it to a mass readership in Britain and America. The journal's business is technical — comparative cranial anatomy across species, the structure of the brain and spinal column, reviews of the phrenological literature, and clinical cases including skull surgery — and it is conducted in the register of a professional scientific periodical rather than a popular one. It is the purest single-subject title in this part of the archive, and a useful corrective to the assumption that phrenology was everywhere a commercial art: in Germany it was also a research programme.

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