Alexander Walker (physiologist)
Scottish physiologist and journalist
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| Intro | Scottish physiologist and journalist | |
| Places | United Kingdom Scotland | |
| was | Biologist Scientist Journalist Physiologist | |
| Work field | Biology Journalism Science | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1779, Scotland, United Kingdom | |
| Death | 1 January 1852 (aged 73 years) |
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Alexander Walker (1779—1852) was a Scottish physiologist, aesthetician, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist.
He was the founder and editor of The European Review (1824–26), a journal published in English, French, German and Italian, with many eminent contributors, such as Goethe and Cuvier. He was a friend of Benjamin Constant and translated his work.
However he was most famous for his best-selling works linking physiology and aesthetics: Physiognomy, founded on Physiology (1834), Beauty, illustrated chiefly by ananalysis and classification of Beauty in Women (1836), and Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce (1839). A great deal of what he wrote in this line is now considered to belong to the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology.