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Gall, Franz Joseph
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or The founder of phrenology, born at Tiefenbronn, on the borders of Baden and Würtemberg; in 1785 he established himself as a physician in Vienna, where for many years he carried on a series of elaborate investigations on the nature of the brain and its relation to the outer cranium, visiting with that view lunatic asylums, &c.; in 1796 he gave publicity to his views in a series of lectures in Vienna, which were, however, condemned as subversive of morality and religion; being joined by Spurzheim, who adopted his theories, he undertook a lecturing tour through a large part of Europe, and eventually settled at Paris, where he published his phrenological work "Fonctions du Cerveau"; it is a curious fact that on his death his skull was found to be twice the usual thickness, and that there was a tumour in the cerebellum (1758-1828).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gall, Franz Joseph'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gall-franz-joseph.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
