Ernest-Théodore Hamy (22 June 1842,

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– 18 November 1908,

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) was a French

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and

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. He studied medicine in

, earning his doctorate in 1868. Afterwards, he served as a ''préparateur'' under

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in the laboratory of anthropology at the Ecole pratique des hautes études. In 1872 he became an assistant naturalist at the

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, where he worked closely with

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Sociétés savantes de France In 1892 he was appointed professor of anthropology at the Museum. Bérose
Hamy, Ernest-Théodore (1842-1908) He was founder and curator of the

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as well as creator of the ''Revue d’ethnographie''. He was vice-president (1886) and president (1895) of the , and a founding member of the Société des américanistes (1892). Also, he was a member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris and the

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Selected works

* ''Précis de paléontologie humaine'' (1870). * ''Les Origines du musée d'ethnographie'' (1890).OCLC WorldCat
published works

References

External links

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Extensive bibliography * Matthew R. Goodrum, "Ernest-Théodore Hamy (1842-1908)," Online Biographical Dictionary of the History of Paleoanthropology, Matthew R. Goodrum general editor (2015). Available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/13VdmR3-7R5b5oTleVblKrLsnRuA1Lf2O/view 1842 births 1908 deaths French anthropologists French ethnologists People from Boulogne-sur-Mer {{France-scientist-stub