Gustav Friedrich Klemm (12 November 1802, in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

– 26 August 1867, in

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) was a German

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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.

References

1802 births 1867 deaths People from Chemnitz 19th-century German anthropologists German librarians People from the Kingdom of Saxony {{Germany-anthropologist-stub