Emil Ludwig Schmidt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emil Ludwig Schmidt

German ethnologist and anthropologist

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1837

Place of Birth: Obereichstätt, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1906

Profession: university teacher, anthropologist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Emil Ludwig Schmidt (7 April 1837 – 22 October 1906) was a German anthropologist and ethnologist.
He was son-in-law to art historian Johannes Adolph Overbeck (1826–1895). Schmidt was born in Upper Eichstätt.
Originally trained as a doctor, he studied medicine at the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Bonn.
From 1862 to 1865 he served as a surgical assistant to Wilhelm Busch at Bonn, afterwards working as a physician in Essen (He served as head of the Krupp Hospital and as family physician to the Krupp family).In 1869–70 and 1876 he took anthropological study trips to North America, and in 1875 performed research in Egypt.
In 1885 he received habilitation at the University of Leipzig, where in 1889 he became an associate professor of anthropology and ethnography.
In 1889–90 he performed research in Ceylon and southern India. In 1900 Schmidt donated his collection of more than 1000 human skulls to the University of Leipzig.