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'''Rudolf Martin'''
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=== House Notes ===
1896.12.08 nominated as an Honorary Fellow<br />death reported in Report of the Council for 1925<br />obituary in Man 1925
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Rudolf Martin (1 July 1864 – 11 July 1925) was a Swiss anthropologist, specializing in physical anthropology.<br /><br />Martin, Rudolf<br />Born July 1, 1864, in Zürich; died July 11, 1925, in Munich. German anthropologist.<br />Martin was a professor at the universities of Zurich (1899-1911) and Munich (from 1917). He created the modern methods of anthropological research, expanding and improving the earlier methods of P. Broca. Martin’s technique of measuring the skull, bones, and the human body as a whole and the instruments developed by him were universally accepted. His anthropological studies of the indigenous population of Tierra del Fuego (1893) and the Malays of the Malacca Peninsula (1905) are well known.<br />
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