Julius Schvarcz
Julius Schvarcz
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Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Deputy in the Hungarian Parliament [1872]
name spelt Schwarcz ESL; Schvarcz ASL
Notes From Elsewhere
[Anthropological Review]: Dr. Julius Schvarcz, a Hungarian gentleman of private fortune, and one of the most rising anthropologists of Europe, whose work, published in English, On the Failure of Geological Attempts in Greece, received a favourable reception from the scientific world in 1862, has again visited England this season in order to publish the second volume of this work. He has at the same been collecting the most recentlyacquired facts in relation to the temperature of English and American mines with the view of bringing them forward in his forthcoming extensive work on Internal Heat, an abstract of which is to bo read at Dundee. Since the year 1862, when Dr. Julius Schvarcz's anthropological and geologico-historical works were for the first time introduced to the English public, he has been continuing his researches into theoretical geology, more particularly in relation to the theory of intenal heat, and has likewise paid much attention to such anthropological subjects as the theory of progressive development, the zoo-geography of the different geological periods, human fossils, and the highest traces of the historical antiquity of human races. At the same time he has been actively engaged in supporting the cause of popular education in Hungary, and has
collected at his private expense entirely new table3 of school statistics of Hungary, being the most complete and detailed work of the kind in Central Europe. Dr. Schvarcz has, in addition to these scientific and patriotic
labours, founded a national association for the promotion of popular education in Hungary, and has brought out, besides a mass of smaller works on educational subjects, a large quarto volume entitled, Educational Reform as a Political Necessity in Hungary, a work which is ranked by Hungarian men of science as one of the monumental productions of Hungarian literature ; not only in regard to the great influence it has already exercised and continues to exercise on the consolidation of the progress party in Hungary, but also with regard to its form, composition, and style. Dr. Schvarcz, animated by the desire to emulate, with regard to the intellectual development of his countrymen, the work already accomplished for their material interests by
the late Count Szechenyi, is looked upon by the mass of the people as well as by the literati, as amongst the chief supporters of the national party, although still a young man. A paper by Dr. Schvarcz in relation to his
views on national progress in civilisation will be read at Dundee before the British Association. His other paper, on " Internal Heat," may be expected to have great interest for geologists, as it promises to supplant the whole geological doctrine of a central fire by an entirely new argument which we must not forestall. These views, if substantiated, cannot fail to bear in an important manner on various anthropological theories. We shall communicate at a later date the results which Dr. Schvarcz has obtained in his researches into theoretical anthropology, a part of which he has already communicated to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Pesth.
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on the permanence of type Read 7 apr 1863
the future of civilization
