Father of Anthropology
Franz Boas
The study that illustrates human beings and the other important aspects of them is one of the interesting branches in science and known as 'Anthropology'.
In precise, Anthropology is the study of human, their bodies, and societies around them in the past and present days. In this Anthropology, there are many kinds. Some of them are as follows.
- Social Anthropology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Biological or Physical Anthropology
Now let's see the origin and development of the term Anthropology. As the world's present use has previously appeared in the works of Magnus Hundt and Otto Casmann. They both developed their new term Anthropologia from combining the Greek words 'Anthropos' and 'logos'. By the early 18th century, the term began to be used in the study of English language.
Now let's see how it began in the 19th century. The definition of the word Anthropology is defined by Bartholins in 1647 who is a founder of University of Copenhagen as follows. Anthropology is the study of science that studies man which can be ordinarily divided into other parts with reason to anatomy which considers body parts and also into psychology which says about the
soul.
In 1839 Etienne Serres used the word to describe the natural history. In 1850 this helped in creating a chair for anthropology and ethnography at the National Museum of Natural History.
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