[Tradition and innovation in Zurich anthropology between 1915 and 1925]

An analysis of the publications of the Zurich anthropologists, Adolph Hans Schultz (1891-1976) and Otto Schlaginhaufen (1879-1973) from 1915 to 1925 revealed that both were interested in various subjects and worked on different materials but used the same quantitative method of their teacher, Rudolf Martin (1864-1925). Thus, this method is likely to be the supporting element of the Zurich school of anthropology. The 1915-1925 period describes the earliest stage in Schultz's scientific career and his first years in America, prior to his expeditions to Panama, Siam, and Borneo which presumably led to a change in his object selection. Eugenics became an interdisciplinary guideline of research furthered by the Zurich school of anthropology. Schlaginhaufen as head of the Department of Anthropology and a foundation for anthropological research had a direct influence on other research groups within his university.