Researching Petrus Camper
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 63 people with the Camper surname? In that year Camper was ranked number 3516 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Petrus Camper on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Petrus Camper and the Camper Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 52 people with the Camper surname in the UK? Camper is now ranked number 3993 for popularity in the UK. |
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Petrus Camper
Petrus Camper FRS (11 May 1722 – 7 April 1789), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy, palaeontology, and the facial angle. He was among the first to mark out an "anthropology," which he distinguished from natural history. He studied the orangutan, the Javan rhinoceros, and the skull of a mosasaur, which he believed was a whale. Camper was a celebrity in Europe and became a member of the Royal Society (1750), the Göttingen (1779), and Russian Academy of Sciences (1778), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783), the French (1786) and the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1788). He designed and constructed tools for his patients, and for surgeries. He was amateur-drawer, a sculptor, a patron of art and a conservative, royalist politician. Camper published some lectures containing an account of his craniometrical methods. These laid the foundation of all subsequent work.
Source: Petrus Camper, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Camper
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