William Frédéric Edwards
French physiologist · France · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1777 to 1842 · aged 65
William Frédéric Edwards (1777-1842) was a French physiologist, of Jamaican background, who was also a pioneer anthropologist. He has been called "the father of ethnology in France". He is remembered largely for his principle of the permanency of physical "types."
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He was also a leader in the new science of "linguistique" and proposed a new branch of comparative philology based on pronunciation.
