page_title: Petrus Camper
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Petrus Camper / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kupferstich der Camperschen Ebene.
context_page_description: Petrus Camper FRS, was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy, palaeontology, and the facial angle. He was among the first to mark out an "anthropology," which he distinguished from natural history. He studied the orangutan, the javan rhinoceros, and the skull of a mosasaur, which he believed was a whale. Camper was a celebrity in Europe and became a member of the Royal Society, the Göttingen, and Russian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the French and the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He designed and constructed tools for his patients, and for surgeries. He was amateur-drawer, a sculptor, a patron of art and a conservative, royalist politician. Camper published some lectures containing an account of his craniometrical methods. These laid the foundation of all subsequent work.
context_section_description: Georges Cuvier praised his "genius eye" but criticised him for keeping himself to simple sketches. He had a eulogy in his honour composed by Nicolas de Condorcet and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr. Camper influenced Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton.
  His son Adriaan Gilles Camper published much of his father's unpublished research in addition to a biography of him.
  The Dutch author Thomas Rosenboom used Petrus Camper as a character in his novel, Gewassen vlees (1994).
caption: Abbildung der Camperschen Ebene basierend auf einem Kupferstich aus Peter Campers Werk Über den natürlichen Unterschied der Gesichtszüge in Menschen verschiedener Gegenden und verschiedenen Alters von 1792. Die Campersche Ebene ist orange hervorgehoben.
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