Hamy, Ernest

has biography | a une biographie: Trained as a doctor, Ernest Hamy was interested in all human sciences. A student of Paul Broca, he adopted his methods of somatic anthropology to study human skulls. In 1882, he published a synthesis of his studies, Crania Ethnica, Les crânes des races humaines, with Quatrefages, professor of anthropology at the Muséum naturel, in which he gives the measurements taken on the skulls of different "races", considered unequal to each other, and concentrates the study on those he claims "remained at the lowest rung of the ladder of civilizations" (p. VI). A member of numerous learned societies and part of scholarly networks in France and Europe, prolific author of memoirs, books and notes in journals, assistant then professor of anthropology at the Muséum from 1882 to 1908, he worked tirelessly to create the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro. He directed the museum from its creation in 1878 to 1906.
was born | est né: 22 June 1842
died in | est mort par: 18 November 1908
has nationality | a la nationalité: France
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Nélia Dias, Le Musée d’ethnographie du Trocadéro (1878-1908). Anthropologie et muséologie en France, Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1991.
Emmanuelle Sibeud, « Ernest-Théodore Hamy », dans Pierre-André Taguieff, Dictionnaire historique et critique du racisme, Paris, PUF, 2013.

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