Waitz, THEODOR, anthropologist, was born at Gotha, 17th March 1821, studied philology, mathematics, and philosophy at Leipzig and Jena, became a lecturer in 1844 at Marburg, and professor extra-ordinary of Philosophy in 1848, and died March 21, 1864.
His greatest work is the monumental Anthropologie der Naturvölker (vols. i.-iv. Leip. 1859-64; vols. v.-vi. by Gerland, 1870-71). The Anthropological Society of London published a translation of the first volume in 1863. Other works were Grundlegung der Psychologie (1846), Lehrbuch der Psychologie als Naturwissenschaft (1849), Allgemeine Pädagogik (1852), and a critical edition of the Organon von Aristotle (1844).