Josiah C. Nott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josiah C. Nott

American surgeon

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1804

Place of Birth: South Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1873

Profession: physician, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Josiah Clark Nott (March 31, 1804 – March 31, 1873) was an American surgeon and anthropologist.
He is known for his studies into the etiology of yellow fever. Nott, the owner of nine slaves, "used his influence and his science to defend the subjugation of blacks through slavery".
He claimed that "the negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a state of slavery".
Nott was influenced by the racial theories of Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), one of the inspirators of physical anthropology.
Morton collected hundreds of human skulls from around the world and tried to classify them.
Morton had been among the first to claim that he could judge the intellectual capacity of a race by the cranial capacity (the measure of the volume of the interior of the skull).
A large skull meant a large brain and high intellectual capacity, and a small skull indicated a small brain and decreased intellectual capacity.
By studying these skulls he came to the conclusion of polygenism, that each race had a separate origin.



Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	1833	5 December 1904
Location of birth/death	Hesse	Far Rockaway
Work period	from 1865 until circa 1899 date QS:P,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City
Authority control	: Q8014126 VIAF: 28263143 ISNI: 0000 0001 1754 0693 LCCN: nr96024138 GND: 133521362 BNF: 153540758 WorldCat