Christoph Meiners (1747-1810) was a German philosopher, and early anthropologist. He supported a polygenist theory of human origins. Year 1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... See Anthropology. ...

He was Professor of Weltweisheit at the University of Göttingen, and wrote on comparative history and cultural history. He is now known mostly for his critical attitude towards Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft and the concept of Enlightenment; and for racist thinking leading to an acceptance of slavery. The Georg-August University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, often called the Georgia Augusta) was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. ... The chronological comparison or commentory between different societies at a given time is called comparative history. ... Cultural history (from the German term Kulturgeschichte), at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. ... Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). ... Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and feminist. ... The Age of Enlightenment (French: , German: ) refers to the eighteenth century in European and American philosophy, or the longer period including the Age of Reason. ... 1. ... Slave redirects here. ...

Works

• Geschichte des Ursprungs, Fortgangs und Verfalls der Wissenschaften in Griechenland und Rom (1781) two volumes
• Geschichte des Luxus der Athenienser von den ältesten Zeiten an bis auf den Tod Philipps von Makedonien (1782)
• Grundriß der Geschichte der Menschheit (1785)
• Beschreibung Alter Denkmäler in Allen Theilen Der Erde (1786)
• Grundriß der Theorie und Geschichte der schönen Wissenschafften (1787)
• Ueber den thierischen Magnetismus (1788)
• Aus Briefen über die Schweiz. Reisen im Sommer 1782 und 1788 (1791)
• Leben Ulrichs von Hutten (1797)
• Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Männer aus den Zeiten der Wiederherstellung der Wissenschaften (1797) three volumes
• Beschreibung einer Reise nach Stuttgart und Strasburg im Herbste 1801 (1803)
• Untersuchungen über die Verschiedenheiten der Menschennaturen (1813) four volumes