Adolf Bastian (1826–1905)

German ethnologist. Went to Australia as a ship’s doctor in 1851 and travelled around the world until 1859. Published Der Mensche in Geschichte (1860). Established the Berlin Museum of Ethnography in 1868; the Anthropological Society of Berlin in 1870. Lecturer in ethnology, University of Berlin, from 1868. Opposed the application of Darwinian theory to humans.