Adolf Bastian

Adolf Bastian
Adolf Bastian, 1892
Born	(1826-06-26)26 June 1826 Bremen, German Confederation
Died	2 February 1905(1905-02-02) (aged 78) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology

Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 1826 – 2 February 1905) was a 19th-century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline. Modern psychology owes him a great debt, because of his theory of the Elementargedanke, which led to Carl Jung's development of the theory of archetypes. His ideas had a formative influence on the "father of American anthropology" Franz Boas, and he also influenced the thought of comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell.^{[n 1][2]}

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