Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to the classification of what he called human races, of which he determined there to be five.
Read more about Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Biography, Blumenbach's Racial Classification System, Study of The Platypus, Study of Natural History, Study of The Chimpanzee, Degeneration Theory, Idea of The Bildungstrieb
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“The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)