Historedia
Person

Hermann Schaaffhausen

Events
1
Episodes
3
Years
1856–1864

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Hermann Schaaffhausen, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Discovery of Neanderthal type specimen in the Neander Valley

    1856–1864

    Role: German anthropologist who investigated the remains and published findings

    1. August 1856 · Kleine Feldhofer GrotteDiscovery of Remains

      Italian workers uncovered human-like bones in the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in August 1856.

    2. June 2, 1857 · Natural History Society of the Prussian Rhineland and WestphaliaPresentation to Society

      Fuhlrott and Schaaffhausen presented findings to the Natural History Society in June 1857.

    3. 1864 · Scientific JournalFormal Naming

      William King proposed the name Homo neanderthalensis in 1864, distinguishing the fossil.

Sources

  1. Neanderthal Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-06
  2. Neanderthal 1 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-12