Aleš Hrdlička

Aleš Hrdlicka ( born March 30, 1869 in Humpolec, Bohemia, † September 5, 1943 in Washington, DC ) was a Bohemian- American anthropologist.

Hrdlicka's family emigrated in 1881 to the USA. There he received a medical education and founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, which he edited until his death. 1903 Hrdlicka was first deputy curator, 1910, curator at the National Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institute.

Between 1898 and 1925 he led in Europe and America by anthropological studies. His work on human development and his research on the question whether the Indians from Siberia immigrated to Alaska across the Bering Strait, made ​​him internationally known.

Hrdlicka was married to Marie Strickler.

Publications (selection)

  • Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, 1908 ( modern edition: Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-4179-3837-4 )
  • Physical Anthropology, 1919
  • Anthropometry, 1920
  • Old Americans, 1925
  • Alaska Diary (1926-1931), The Jacques Cattell Press, Lancaster (PA ), 1943
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