Bertil J. Lundman (September 28, 1899,

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– November 5, 1993) was a

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Early life

Lundman was born on September 28, 1899, in

Career

Lundman was an anthropologist. In the 1930s, he wrote an article in '' Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde'', a German journal of racial studies. Later, he served on the executive committee of the

International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics The International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE) was an organisation that promoted eugenics and segregation, and the first publisher of ''Mankind Quarterly''. History IAAEE was founded in 1959 and has headquarte ...

. He created a racial classification system of Europeans in his book ''The Races and Peoples of Europe'' (1977).

Death

Lundman died on November 5, 1993.

Bibliography

*Västmanland types, Christmas reading, Västmanland county newspaper (1931) *Folk type surveys in Dalarna I-IX, Dalarna homestead book (1932–38, 1940, 1946) *Nordic racial types, (1940) *Human Races and Tribes of the Earth, (1943–44) *The anthropology of the Dala common people (Doctoral dissertation), (1945) *On the Origin of the Lapps, Ethnos (1946) *Modern Human Races (1946) *Recent racial research in Finland (1946) *Races and Stocks in Baltoscandia (1946) *Ergebnisse der anthropologischen Lappenforchung, Anthropos (1952) *Outline of the Racism of Men in Historical Time (1952) *Tribal Studies der Völkers (1961) *Blutgruppenforschung und geograpische Anthropologie (1967) *Tribes of the Earth (1969) *The human races of the earth or the geographical variation of man through climatic adaptations and migrations (1969) *Concise Ethnogeography (1970) *The Races and Peoples of Europe (translation) (1977) *Memoirs (1987)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lundman, Bertil 1899 births 1993 deaths People from Malmö Swedish anthropologists Anthropology writers Proponents of scientific racism Burials at Uppsala old cemetery 20th-century anthropologists