Crânologie Ou Découvertes Nouvelles Du Dr F.j. Gall Concernant Le Cerveau, Le Crâne Et Les Organes... (French Edition)
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Crânologie Ou Découvertes Nouvelles Du Dr F.J. Gall Concernant Le Cerveau, Le Crâne Et Les Organes
Franz Joseph Gall, Bloede
H. Nicolle, 1807
Franz Josef Gall was a neuroanatomist, physiologist.
Background
Gall was born in 1758 in the village of Tiefenbronn to a wealthy Roman Catholic wool merchant. The Galls, originally a noble family from Lombardy, had been the leading family in the area for over a century. His father was the mayor of Tiefenbronn and he was one of 12 children, only 7 of whom lived to adulthood.
Education
After completing the usual literary course at Baden and Bruchsal, he began the study of medicine under J. Hermann (1738 - 1800) at Strassburg, whence, attracted by the names of Gerhard van Swieten (1700- 1772) and Maximilian Stoll (1742 - 1788), he removed to Vienna in 1781.
Having received his diploma, he began to practise as a physician there in 1785; but his energies were mainly devoted to the scientific investigation of problems which had occupied his attention from boyhood.
Career
The first public notice of his inquiries in cranioscopy, however, was in the form of a letter addressed to a friend, which appeared in С. M. Wieland's Deutscher Mercur in 1798; but two years previously he had begun to give private courses of phrenological lectures in Vienna, where his doctrines soon attracted general attention, and met with increasing success until, in 1802, they were interdicted by the government as being dangerous to religion.
In 1808 appeared his Introduction au cours de physiologie du cerveau, which was followed in 1809 by the Recherches sur le sysihme nerveux en general, et sur celui du cerveau en particulier (originally laid before the Institute of France in March 1808), and in 1810 by the first instalment of the Anatomie et physiologie du systbme nerveux en general, et du cerveau en particulier, avec des observations sur la possibility de reconnoitre plusieurs dispositions intellectuelles et morales de I'homme et des animaux par la configuration de leurs tites.
The Recherches and the first two volumes of the Anatomie bear the conjoint names of Gall and Spurzheim.
The latter work was completed in 1819, and appeared in a second edition of six volumes in 1822-1825.
In 1819 he became a naturalized French subject, but his efforts two years afterwards to obtain admission to the Academy of Sciences, although supported by E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, were unsuccessful.
In 1823 he visited London with the intention of giving a series of phrenological lectures, but his reception was not what he had anticipated, and he speedily abandoned his plans.
He continued to lecture and practise in Paris until the beginning of 1828, when he was disabled by an apoplectic seizure.