1. Christoph Meiners was a German racialist, philosopher, historian, and writer born in Warstade.
18 Facts About Christoph Meiners
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Christoph Meiners was a member of the Gottingen school of history.
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Christoph Meiners was born in Warstade near Otterndorf.
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Christoph Meiners started at a gymnasium in Bremen in 1763, and was a student at Gottingen from 1767 to 1770.
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Christoph Meiners is known mostly for his critical attitude towards Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft and the concept of Enlightenment.
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Christoph Meiners later became the favorite intellectual ancestor of the Nazis.
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Christoph Meiners was a very early practitioner of scientific racism.
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Christoph Meiners studied the physical, mental and moral characteristics of each race, and built a race hierarchy based on the evidence that was considered common in scientific and anthropological circles at the time.
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Christoph Meiners considered ugly races as inferior, immoral, and animal-like.
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Christoph Meiners claimed that the black ugly peoples are distinct from the white beautiful peoples by their sad lack of virtue and their terrible vices.
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Christoph Meiners claimed the Negro felt less pain than any other race and lacked in emotions.
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Christoph Meiners studied the anatomy of the Negro and came to the conclusion that the Negro have bigger teeth and jaws than any other race, as the Negro are all carnivores.
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Christoph Meiners claimed the skull of the Negro was larger but the brain of the Negro was smaller than any other race.
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Christoph Meiners claimed the Negro was the most unhealthy race on earth because of the Negro's poor diet, mode of living and lack of morals he said.
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Christoph Meiners claimed Native Americans were an inferior stock of people.
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Christoph Meiners claimed the skin of a Native American is thicker than an ox.
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Christoph Meiners wrote that the noblest race was the Celts, and they were able to conquer various parts of the world, were more sensitive to heat and cold and their delicacy is shown by the way they are selective about what they eat.
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Christoph Meiners claimed that their medical techniques were backwards such as the Slavs baking sick people in ovens then making them roll in the snow.