{"id":5154,"date":"2010-12-06T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2010-12-06T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:13:38","slug":"virchow-study-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/12\/virchow-study-1874\/","title":{"rendered":"Virchow Study 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that all the interest in epidemiology &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/no-day-without-a-line\/\">biobanking<\/a> is a rather new development.<br \/>\nBut that needs some correction as I just heard about the Virchow study of 1874 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet-wissen.de\/politik_geschichte\/drittes_reich\/ns_rassenlehre\/portaet_rudolf_virchow.jsp\">planet-wissen<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1874 leitete der deutsche Mediziner und Anthropologe Rudolf Virchow eine Untersuchung, in der die Haarfarbe, Augenfarbe und die K\u00f6rpergr\u00f6\u00dfe von sieben Millionen Schulkindern im Deutschen Reich statistisch erfasst wurde. Die Frage dieser Mammutstudie war, ob die Bev\u00f6lkerung des neu gegr\u00fcndeten Reichs auch eine rassische Einheit bildete &#8230; Nur etwa ein Drittel der deutschen Schulkinder war tats\u00e4chlich blond und blau\u00e4ugig, rund 13 Prozent waren &#8220;rein dunkel&#8221;, also mit dunklem Teint und braunen oder schwarzen Haaren; weit mehr als die H\u00e4lfte &#8211; fast 54 Prozent &#8211; zeigte unterschiedliche Merkmale. &#8220;Die klassischen Merkmale der germanischen Rasse beschr\u00e4nken sich also auf ein Drittel der heutigen deutschen Jugend&#8221;, schrieb Virchow.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 04.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that all the interest in epidemiology &#038; biobanking is a rather new development. But that needs some correction as I just heard about the Virchow study of 1874 at planet-wissen. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 04.05.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,472,276],"class_list":["post-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-dna","tag-biobank","tag-epidemiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}