!!!Gall, Franz Joseph

Gall, Franz Joseph, b. Tiefenbrunn (Germany), March 9, 1758, 
d. Montrouge (France), Aug. 22, 1828, anatomist. Studied in 
Strasbourg and gave private lectures on the anatomy of the brain and 
on phrenology in Vienna. When these lectures were prohibited, he went 
to Paris, where he became very successful. On J.  Haydn's death, his 
head was illegally separated from his body by followers of G.´s 
teachings. It was not until 1954 that Haydn's skull was buried 
together with his mortal remains. The Rollett-Museum of the City of 
Baden (Lower Austria) houses G.'s collection of skulls.

!Literature
E. Lesky, F. J. G. Naturforscher und 
Anthropologe, 1979; L. Kordelas, Geist und caput mortuum. Hegels 
Kritik der Lehre G. in der "Phaenomenologie des Geistes", 
1998.



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