Giuseppe Sergi

Luca Tedesco (Università Rome III)

Trans. by Daniel Giles (Independent Scholar - North America)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 20 Mar 1841
Died 17 Oct 1936
Activity 1868-1936

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Anthropologist

Other

Psychologist
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Sergi's Works

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Giuseppe Sergi was an Italian anthropologist. His international notoriety is linked to his proposal to replace the cephalic index with the morphological analysis of the cranium in the anthropological classifications and to his rejection of the theory of the existence of a pure Aryan Nordic race. He also helped to broaden the knowledge of Herbert Spencer in Italy, editing the Italian version of the British philosopher’s

The Study of Sociology

(1881a) and

The Data of Ethics

(1881b).

In 1860 Sergi interrupted his university studies in law to participate in the Italian Risorgimento alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi. After this experience, he resumed his university studies, graduating, however, in philosophy, with a thesis on the persistence of Greek-Pythagorean doctrines in Italian philosophy.

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Citation: Tedesco, Luca. "Giuseppe Sergi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 September 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14098, accessed 26 November 2024.]