Gustav Klemm

Gustav Friedrich Klemm (12 November 1802, in Chemnitz – 26 August 1867, in Dresden) was a German anthropologist and librarian. He spent much of his career as the Director of the Royal Library in Dresden. The British Museum purchased his large collection of central European prehistoric antiquities in 1868.[1]

Gustav Klemm

Klemm's 10-volume cultural history divided humanity into 'active' races (at the pinnacle of which were Germanic stock) and 'passive' races (Mongoloids, Negroids, Egyptians, Finns and Hindus).[2]

Works
  • Allgemeine Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit (General Cultural History of Mankind), 10 vols., 1843–52.
  • Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaft (General Science of Culture), 2 vols., 1854-55.
gollark: There are plenty of things in, say, maths, which could have been thought up ages ago, and seem stupidly obvious now, but weren't. Such as modern place value notation.
gollark: Obvious things now may just not have been then.
gollark: Hindsight bias exists.
gollark: As I said, a REALLY bad one would be allocating the vote randomly. This satisfies almost nobody, which makes it a "good compromise" by your definition, but it does that because it has tons of flaws.
gollark: There are LESS BAD ones.

References
  1. British Museum Collection
  2. Harris, The Rise of Anthropological Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, pp.101-2.


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