Gustav Friedrich Klemm (12 November 1802, in Chemnitz – 26 August 1867, in

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) was a German anthropologist and librarian. He spent much of his career as the Director of the Royal Library in Dresden. The

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purchased his large collection of central European prehistoric antiquities in 1868. Klemm's 10-volume cultural history divided humanity into 'active' races (at the pinnacle of which were Germanic stock) and 'passive' races (Mongoloids, Negroids, Egyptians, Finns and Hindus).Harris, ''The Rise of Anthropological Theory'', Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, pp.101-2.

Works

* ''Allgemeine Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit'' (General Cultural History of Mankind), 10 vols., 1843–52. * ''Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaft'' (General Science of Culture), 2 vols., 1854-55.

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1802 births 1867 deaths People from Chemnitz German anthropologists German librarians {{anthropologist-stub