[Preliminary studies of an interdisciplinary inquiry of the body height proportions of Germans in the 19th century and of the influence of living conditions. II. Original preliminary studies for Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, Bavaria, the whole German Reich, summarizing evaluation, historical nutritional references, literature].
In Part I of this examinations, preliminary original researches about the constitutional situations in Germany from the North to the kingdom Württemberg has been presented. In this part II, such preliminary researches follow for the other southern part of the German settlement. With references to Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, and Bavaria first since the second part of the 19th century, comprehensive anthropological data exist, but these contain valuable and differentiated data material. A first analysis for this German data material does not reveal regular relation-ships between body-height, urban and rural life, and geographical altitude. But there are relation-ships between wealthy and poor social classes and between educated and heavily working people, and there exists a negative trend in the body-height-means from the North and South to the middle of the German settlement with minima in Saxony and in several regions in Southern Germany. As spread for the different means about 160 to more than 170 cm is to estimate. The spread seems to be broader in the second half of the 19th century, presumably because the better life-conditions does not hold for all Germans in the same manner. About of the beginning of the 20th century, the body-height-means show an increase with may by interpreted as an kind of rehabilitation after times of emergency in the early industrialization and of difficulties in food supply.
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D000531:Altitude; D001827:Body Height; D005523:Food Supply; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D012424:Rural Population; D012923:Social Class; D014505:Urban Population
Vorarbeiten zu einer interdisziplinären Untersuchung über die Körperhöhenverhältnisse der Deutschen im 19. Jahrhundert und der sie beeinflussenden Lebensverhältnisse. Teil II: Quellenkundliche Vorarbeiten für Baden, Elsass-Lothringen, Bayern, das gesamte Deutsche Reich, zusammenfassende Auswertung, ernährungshistorische Hinweise, Schrifttum.