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Rudolf Martin (1 July 1864 – 11 July 1925) was a
Rudolf Martin (1 July 1864 – 11 July 1925) was a Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
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anthropologist, specializing in physical anthropology
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct Hominini, hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly ...
. Martin's second wife, Stefanie Oppenheim
Stefanie Martin, born Stefanie Oppenheim (10 July 1877 – ) was a German biological anthropologist.
Life
Stephanie L. Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt on 10 July 1877.
Oppenheim married the Swiss anthropogist Rudolf Martin, ...
, survived him and edited a second (1928) edition of his physical anthropology textbook.
Rudolf Martin’s Historical Archive
Rudolf Martin was a Professor of Physical Anthropology in Munich, who had become inspired by the discovery of the ‘ Java Man’ (Pithecanthropus erectus) in 1893 in Java, by the Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Dubois' publications on the 'Missing Link' became the CenterPoint of the Archive of Rudolf Martin, comprising more than 43,000 historical documents, manuscripts, scientific books and journals. The Archive been safeguarded in 1940 from Germany just before WW II. It went to the Institute of Physical Anthropology of Utrecht University until the institute was discontinued in 1993. After rescuing it from destruction, Slikkerveer became the owner of the oldest palaeo-anthropological archive in the world. After many years of research within the Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme (LEAD), he donated the archive on 23 January 2020 to theNaturalis
Naturalis Biodiversity Center ( nl, Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021.
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Center of Biodiversity in Leiden.
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