Daniel G. Brinton

Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899) was an American physician, archaeologist and ethnologist, one of the founders of American anthropology. Born in Pennsylvania, he served as a surgeon in the Union army during the Civil War, then edited a medical journal in Philadelphia while pursuing his studies of Native American peoples. In 1886 he became professor of American linguistics and archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote The Myths of the New World (1868), The American Race and Essays of an Americanist, and edited the Library of Aboriginal American Literature, which printed native texts with translations.