The Man of Genius

by Cesare Lombroso

[22] De Quatrefages, Crania Ethnica, Part i. p. 30.

[23] Zoja, La Testa di Scarpa, 1880.

[24] Sul Cranio di Volta, 1879, Turin.

[25] Welcker, Schiller’s Schädel, 1883.

[26] Revue Scientifique, 1882.

[27] Wagner (Das Hirngewicht, 1877) gives these measurements of scientific men of Gottingen:—

Dirichlet	Mathematician	Age 54	1520	g.
Fuchs	Physician	“ 52	1499	g.
Gauss	Mathematician	“ 78	1492	g.
Hermann	Philologist	“ 51	1358	g.
Hausmann	Mineralogist	“ 77	1226	g.

Bischoff (Hirngewichte bei Münchener Gelehrten) gives the following measurements:—

Hermann	Geometrician	Age 60	1590	g.
Pfeufer	Physician	“ 60	1488	g.
Bischoff	Physician	“ 79	1452	g.
Melchior Meyer	Poet	“ 61	1415	g.
Arnoldi	Orientalist	“ 85	1730	g.
Thackeray	Novelist	“ 52	1660	g.
Abercrombie	Physician	“ 64	1780	g.
Cuvier	Naturalist	“ 63	1829	g.
Doell	Archæologist	“ 85	1650	g.
Schiller	Poet	“ 46	1580	g.
Huber	Philosopher	“ 47	1499	g.
Fallmerayer	Historian	“ 74	1349	g.
Liebig	Chemist	“ 70	1352	g.
Tiedemann	Physiologist	“ 79	1254	g.
Harless	Chemist	“ 40	1238	g.
Döllinger	Physiologist	“ 71	1207	g.

The measurement of the cerebral area often gives superiority even to those men of genius who present a feeble weight. Fuchs had a cerebral surface of 22,1005 square c. and Gauss of 21,9588; while with the same weight the same surface in an unknown woman was 20,4115 and in a workman 18,7672.