Ales Hrdlicka
Alois Ferdinand Hrdlička, after 1918 changed (due to anti-German/Austrian WWI sentiment) to Aleš Hrdlička (b. 29[1] or 30[2] March 1869 in Humpolec, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary; d. 5 September 1943 in Washington, D.C., United States), was an Austro-Hungarian-born American anthropologist who specialised in racial anthropometry.
Life
Hrdlicka was the founder of the American Association of Physical Anthropology in 1918. He also developed the Department of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History, at the Smithsonian Institution and became its curator. Along with Earnest Hooton, Hrdlicka is considered the "father" of physical anthropology. He was a notable late defender of the (now discredited) Out of Europe theory on human evolutionary origins.
Family
On 6 August 1896, Hrdlička married German-American Marie Stickler (whom he had courted since 1892), daughter of Phillip Jakob Strickler from Edenkoben, Bavaria, who immigrated to Manhattan in 1855. Marie died in 1918 of complications of diabetes. In the summer of 1920, Hrdlička married a second time; his fiancée was another German-American woman, Wilhelmina "Mina" Mansfield. Both marriages were childless.
Key race work (excerpt)
- "Physical Differences between White and Colored Children". (1898). American Anthropologist. 11. pp. 347-350.
- "The Peopling of America". Journal of Heredity. 6. pp. 79-91.
- The Old Americans. (1925). The Williams & Wilkins Company.
- "Human Typogeny". (1937). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 78(1). pp. 79-95.
- Practical Anthropometry. (1939). Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.
See also
Sources
- Chronology of the Life of Aleš Hrdlička, Register to the Papers of Aleš Hrdlička
- Biographical Memoir of Ales Hrdlicka by National Academy of Sciences
