title: [Preliminary study of an interdisciplinary examination of the body height proportions of Germans in the 19th century and of the influence of living conditions. I. Introductory justification, problems and preliminary studies based on authentic sources from the political districts from northern Germany to Württemburg].
abstract: Researches about the influences of the nutritional conditions on body-height need interdisciplinary co-operation of Anthropology, History, and Dietetics. Such a team will be difficult succeed in joining. Especially interesting for human sciences are nutritional-constitutional researches on German populations in the 19th century, because in this century multifarious varieties exist within the German settlement. Author hopes, that preliminary original researches and first trends in results facilitate the joining of such an interdisciplinary team. In part I of this inquiry, the necessity for nutritional-constitutional researches are justified, problems are treated and mustering-statistics, the most important data-material, are collected for the political regions of that time from North to the kingdom Württemberg. The kingdom Württemberg of course is the political region with the most continuous data-series, but the data-material is poor on body-height-means and needs new statistical treatments. Less data are particularly available from the middle of the German settlement.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wurm
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry / Q000266:history; D001827:Body Height; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
vernacular_title: Vorarbeiten zu einer interdisziplinären Untersuchung über die Körperhöhenverhältnisse der Deutschen im 19. Jahrhundert und der sie beeinflussenden Lebensverhältnisse. Teil I: Einleitende Begründung, quellenkundliche Probleme, quellenkundliche Vorarbeiten für die politischen Einzelräume von Norddeutschland bis Württemberg.