Ernest Hamy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French anthropologist and ethnologist
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Place of Birth: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Hauts-de-France, France
About Ernest Hamy
- Ernest-Théodore Hamy (22 June 1842, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 18 November 1908, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1868.
- Afterwards, he served as a préparateur under Paul Broca in the laboratory of anthropology at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.
- In 1872 he became an assistant naturalist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he worked closely with Armand de Quatrefages.
- In 1892 he was appointed professor of anthropology at the Museum.He was founder and curator of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro as well as creator of the Revue d’ethnographie.
- He was vice-president (1886) and president (1895) of the Société des traditions populaires, and a founding member of the Société des américanistes (1892).
- Also, he was a member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris and the Société de géographie.
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