Alexander Walker (physiologist)
Alexander Walker (1779–1852) was a Scottish physiologist, aesthetician, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist.
Biography
Born at Leith, Scotland, he studied anatomy with John Barclay. At the age of twenty he went to London, where he was associated with the well-known John Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital.[1]
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).
References
- ↑ Lawrence J. Kinc, "Walker, Alexander," Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
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External links
- Works by Alexander Walker at Project Gutenberg
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