GALL, FRANZ JOSEPH (1758-1828), anatomist, physi ologist and founder of phrenology (q.v.), was born at Tiefenbrunn near Pforzheim, Baden, on March 9, 1758. He studied at Baden, Strasbourg and Vienna, where in 1785 he began to practise as a physician. Gall gradually reached the conviction that the talents and dispositions of men are dependent upon the functions of the brain, and that they may be inferred with precision from the exter nal appearances of the skull. In 1791 appeared his Philosophisch medicinische Untersuchungen caber Natur u. Kunst im kranken U. gesunden Zustande des Menschen. His phrenological lectures in Vienna begun in 1796 met with increasing success until in 1802 they were interdicted by the Government as dangerous to religion. In 1823 Gall made an unsuccessful attempt to lecture in London. He died in Paris on Aug. 22, 1828. (See PHRENOLOGY.) See C. Blondel, La Psycho-Physiologie de Gall (1914) .