Author: Routil, R. (Robert) [1893-1955]
Title: Familienanthropologische Untersuchungen in dem ostschwäbischen Dorfe Marienfeld im rumänischen Banat : I : Biometrische Studien
Description: Wien / Leipzig, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1942. orig. wrappers. 30x21cm, 82 pp. Series: Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Untersuchungen zur Rassenkunde und menschlichen Erblehre, 1.. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Cover title. Full title reads: "Familienanthropologische Untersuchungen in dem ostschwäbischen Dorfe Marienfeld im rumänischen Banat : I : Biometrische Studien". All published. No further volumes issued. Includes 56 textual tables consisting of biometric data concerning Teremia Mare. ["..In 1942, Routil completed what (Eberhard) Geyer started in the area of racial analysis. Incorporated into the team as a biostatistician, Routil's responsiblity was to analyze the previously compiled measured data.... Routil concluded...the inhabitants of Marienfeld have the physical peculiarities of their Southern German ancestors to this day. Routil welcomed 'racial hygiene protective measures as a preventive method to eliminate any defective genetic sequences particularly harmful to the Volksgemeinschaft'...Routil's work in the (Marienfeld) project seems ambivalent and was possibly opportunisitc. He was rated ' a heretic of the fatherland' by some...though he clearly took a Nazi conformist, racialist stance in his study of the project published in 1942" - from: Turda & Weindling "Blood & Homeland: Eugenics & Racial Nationalism in Central & Southeast Europe 1900-1940"].

Keywords: History of Science, Anthropology, Banat, Marienfeld, Nazi Germany, Biometric, Romania, Race Eugenics, Anthropometry