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Ernst Rodenwaldt

Ernst Robert Carl Rodenwaldt (August 5, 1878 – June 4, 1965) was a German hygienist, eugenicist, medical officer, and malariologist who worked in German colonies in Africa and in the Dutch East Indies. He had a special interest in geography and the distribution of diseases which made him interested in what he called geomedicine. He also served as surgeon for the Wehrmacht during the Third Reich. He researched and wrote on the anopheline mosquitoes of Indonesia and, later in life, edited an atlas of epidemic diseases, Welt-Seuchen-Atlas or World Atlas of Epidemic Diseases which was published in three volumes.

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• ▸Biological anthropology
• ▸Inuit art
• ▸Henry T. Gage

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