Johann Spurzheim
Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832) was a German physician who became one of the chief proponents of phrenology created approximately in 1800 by Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828). Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Biography (1856) stated that "his works are too well known to require particular description".
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