James Cowles Prichard

James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) was an English anthropologist, linguist, physician, and psychiatrist. He was founder of ethnology and a philologist, born in Hereford. He was bred to medicine, and practised in Bristol. He wrote "Researches into the Physical History of Mankind," "The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations," "Analysis of Egyptian Mythology," and the "Natural History of Man". He maintained the original unity of the race, and that the original pair were negroes. Philology was in his hands the handmaid of ethnology, and he made himself master of the primitive languages.

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