Daniel Garrison Brinton

Daniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837-July 31, 1899), was an American archaeologist and ethnologist.

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May 13 - 1837 - July 31 - 1899 - Archaeologist - Ethnologist

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He was born in Thornbury, Pennsylvania. He graduated at Yale in 1858, studied for two years in the Jefferson Medical College, and then for one year travelled in Europe and continued his studies at Paris and Heidelberg. From 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, he was a surgeon in the Union army, acting for one year, 1864-1865, as surgeon in charge of the U.S. Army general hospital at Quincy, Illinois.

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Thornbury, Pennsylvania - Yale - Jefferson Medical College - Paris - Heidelberg - American Civil War - Quincy, Illinois

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After the war he practised medicine at West Chester, Pennsylvania, for several years; was the editor of a weekly periodical, the Medical and Surgical Reporter, in Philadelphia, from 1874 to 1887; became professor of ethnology and archaeology in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1884, and was professor of American linguistics and archaeology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 until his death.

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West Chester, Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Academy of Natural Sciences - Linguistics - University of Pennsylvania

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He was a member of numerous learned societies in the United States and in Europe and was president at different times of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, of the American Folk-Lore Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia - American Association for the Advancement of Science

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