Juan Vucetich

Ivan Vucetic, also Hispanicized Juan Vucetich ( born July 20, 1858 the island of Hvar, Croatia; † January 25, 1925 in Dolores, Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine criminologist.

After completing his apprenticeship as a cooper Vucetic left for economic reasons his homeland Croatia and moved to Argentina. He was an employee of the State Police in La Plata. There he was assigned as head of the statistics department with anthropometric studies on offender identification. Here he noticed that no fingerprint is unique. He called his method initially Iknofalangometrie, but renamed it later in fingerprint data. Thus Ivan Vucetic recognized independently by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, the value of fingerprint data for police intelligence work.

After 1892 in La Plata, a double murder has been solved with the help of a fingerprint world for the first time, saw the criminologist in 1896 for the nationwide introduction of fingerprint data and established the Office of Statistics and detection beings in La Plata. Argentina was thus the first country in the world that introduced this identification system.

In honor Vučetićs carries the Police Academy in La Plata the name Escuela de policia Juan Vucetich. The Forensic Institute of the police in Zagreb was also named after him.

  • Man
  • Argentine
  • Historical person ( South East Europe)
  • Criminologist
  • Policeman
  • Born in 1858
  • Died in 1925
  • Croatian
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