Letter from Johann Gaspar Spurzheim to Honorine Spurzheim

Letter from Johann Gaspar Spurzheim to Honorine Spurzheim

Phrenology

Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832

Spurzheim, Honorine

Correspondence

During the course of his extensive travels through Europe and America, J. G. Spurzheim maintained a vigorous correspondence with his wife, Honorine, describing the people he met, the hospitals, prisons, and schools he visited, and the spread of phrenological doctrine. In this letter, Spurzheim describes his break with Franz Joseph Gall and the changing conception of phrenology.

A letter from Johann Gaspar Spurzheim to his wife, Honorine Spurzheim, discussing Franz Joseph Gall and phrenology, while he was in London, England and she was in Paris, France

Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar

1815 May 17

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Papers of Johann Gasper Spurzheim, 1813-1835 (inclusive). B MS c22, box 1, fd. 3

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