Adolf Bastian

Adolf Bastian (1826-1905), full name Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian, was an eminent German ethnologist, born at Bremen. He travelled over and surveyed, in the interest of his science, all quarters of the globe, and recorded the fruits of his survey in his numerous works, no fewer than thirty in number, beginning with "Der Mensch in der Geschichte," in three volumes, conducted along with Virchow and R. Hartman, the 'Zeitschrift für Ethnologie'. He is known for his theory of the "psychic unity of mankind."

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