Quotes:Gall, Franz Joseph

Zirkoff, Boris

Gall, Franz Joseph. German anatomist and physiologist, b. at Tiefen· brunn, Baden, March 9, 1758; d. in Paris, Aug. 22, 1828. Studied at Baden, Strasburg and Vienna, where he started praticing as a physician, 1785. He related the talents and dispositions of people to the external appearance of the skull, and became the founder of modern phrenology. His lectures on phrenology, begun in Vienna, 1796, met with increasing success until in 1802 they were interdicted by the Government as dangerous to religion. Gall transferred his seat to London, 1823, but did not meet with much success.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 648