Alexander Walker (physiologist)
- Alexander Walker (physiologist)
Alexander Walker (1779—1852) was a Scottish physiologist, aesthetician, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist.
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). A great deal of what he wrote in this line is now considered to belong to the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology.
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