Johann Jakob Bachofen
Swiss legal and classical scholar
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Johann Jakob Bachofen's Degrees
- Doctorate Law University of Basel
- PhD Philology University of Basel
Why Is Johann Jakob Bachofen Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johann Jakob Bachofen was a Swiss antiquarian, jurist, philologist, anthropologist, and professor for Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1845. Bachofen is most often connected with his theories surrounding prehistoric matriarchy, or Das Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: an investigation of the religious and juridical character of matriarchy in the Ancient World. Bachofen assembled documentation demonstrating that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum. He postulated an archaic "mother-right" within the context of a primeval Matriarchal religion or Urreligion.
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