Ernest-Theodore Hamy
| Dr Ernest-Theodore Hamy | |||||||||
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| Born | 1842 | ||||||||
| Died | 1908 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Museum du Trocadero, Paris Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [1888] 36 Rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, Paris [1907] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
museum work anthropologist ethnologist | ||||||||
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1883.12.11 proposed as Hon. Fellow
death noted in the report of the council for 1908: Dr. E. T. Harny was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1884. As Professor in the Museum of Natural History, and Director of the Museum of Ethnography in Paris, his studies had covered an unusually wide field. He was an ex-President of the Anthropological Society of Paris, and by his death, at the age of sixty-four, France loses one of her leading anthropologists.
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Ernest-Théodore Hamy (22 June 1842, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 18 November 1908, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist.
He studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1868. Afterwards he served as a préparateur under Paul Broca in the laboratory of anthropology at the Ecole pratique des hautes études. In 1872 he became an assistant naturalist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he worked closely with Armand de Quatrefages.[1] In 1892 he was appointed professor of anthropology at the Museum.[2]
He was founder and curator of the Musée ethnographique du Trocadéro as well as creator of the Revue d’ethnographie. He was vice-president (1886) and president (1895) of the Société des traditions populaires,[2] and a founding member of the Société des américanistes (1892).[1] Also, he was a member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris and the Société de géographie.[2]
Publications
External Publications
Précis de paléontologie humaine (1870) Les Origines du musée d'ethnographie (1890).
