Franz Weidenreich

Franz Weidenreich was a German-American anatomist and physical anthropologist, born on 7 June 1873 and died on 11 July 1948. He held chairs of anatomy at Strasbourg and Heidelberg and founded the Institute for Physical Anthropology at the University of Frankfurt. In the 1930s he emigrated, working successively in Peking and in New York. He is best known for his work on human evolution, in particular on the Ehringsdorf Neanderthal and on Peking Man, and for ideas that laid the groundwork for the multiregional hypothesis in palaeoanthropology.