Raimundo Nina Rodrigues

Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (4 December 1862 – 17 July 1906) was a Brazilian coroner, psychiatrist, teacher, writer, anthropologist and ethnologist. A notable eugenicist, he was also a dietologist, tropicalist, sexologist, hygienist, biographer and epidemiologist.

Nina Rodrigues is considered the founder of Brazilian criminal anthropology and a pioneer in studies on black culture in the country. A nationalist, he was the first Brazilian scholar to address the theme of black people as a relevant social issue for understanding the racial formation of the Brazilian population, despite adopting a racist, nationalist, scientistic and deterministic perspective, in his book Os Africanos no Brasil (1890–1905).