The split between Gall and Spurzheim (1813–1818). Issue 2 (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Whitaker, Harry; Jarema, Gonia
• Is Part Of: Journal of the history of the neurosciences. Volume 26:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 216
• Page End: 223
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: Disciple -- Franz Joseph Gall -- mentor -- organologie -- phrenology -- Johann Gaspar Spurzheim; Neurology -- History -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- History -- Periodicals; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1080/0964704X.2016.1204807
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-704X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: An acerbic footnote in Volume 3 (1818) of the five-volume great work of Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General and of the Brain in Particular with Observations on the Possibility of Understanding the Many Moral and Intellectual Dispositions of Man and Animals by the Configuration of Their Heads, marked the end of the collaboration between Gall, the founder of organologie, and Spurzheim, promoter of phrenology. We discuss the background of this note and the nature of the rift that marked the end of Gall and Spurzheim's collaboration.