Taylor, Isaac:
The origin of the Aryans : an account of the prehistoric ethnology and civilisation of Europe / by Isaac Taylor. – 2nd ed. – London : Scott, 1892. – xi, 339 S.
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Über Taylor schreibt Wikipedia (Artikel vom 25. Mai 2007): „Isaac Taylor (1829-1901), son of Isaac Taylor, was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York (from 1885).“ Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine archäologischen und philologischen Arbeiten. „In 1890, Taylor published Origin of the Aryans, in which he proposed the „round-head theory,“ in which he argued that European Russia was the homeland of all of the Indo-European peoples, in opposition to the assertion of Max Müller, who had argued for Central Asia. Taylor believed that the Celts (tall stature, round heads), a branch of the ancient Finns, were the only true Aryans who had „Aryanized“ the Iberians (short stature, long heads), the Scandinavians (tall stature, long heads), and the Ligurians (short stature, round heads).“
Eine alte Buchbesprechung vom Juni 1890 ist im Online-Archiv der „New York Times“ verfügbar: No better than Turks. The origin of the Aryans (New York Times, 23. Juni 1890, S. 3).
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