Petrus Camper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Petrus Camper

Dutch scientist

Date of Birth: 11-May-1722

Place of Birth: Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1789

Profession: physician, professor, zoologist, surgeon, university teacher, paleontologist, physiologist, anatomist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Petrus Camper FRS (11 May 1722 – 7 April 1789), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment.
He was one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy, palaeontology, and the facial angle.
He was among the first to mark out an "anthropology," which he distinguished from natural history.
He studied the orangutan, the javan rhinoceros, and the skull of a mosasaur, which he believed was a whale.
Camper was a celebrity in Europe and became a member of the Royal Society (1750), the Göttingen (1779), and Russian Academy of Sciences (1778), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783), the French (1786) and the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1788).
He designed and constructed tools for his patients, and for surgeries.
He was amateur-drawer, a sculptor, a patron of art and a conservative, royalist politician.
Camper published some lectures containing an account of his craniometrical methods.
These laid the foundation of all subsequent work.