The books of the famous German anthropologist, anatomist and doctor Karl Stratz (1858-1924) were popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. in the widest strata of the reading public, because through an elegant style he dared to express the essence of the problems that were banned during the chaste age. Never has anthropological and anatomical information been presented in the form of such an entertaining genre, and racial differences have not been framed by such an abundance of accompanying geographical exoticism.