Aleš Hrdlička

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Aleš Hrdlička (March 30, 1869, Humpolec, today Czech Republic – 1943) was a Czech anthropologist living in the USA.

His family emigrated in the USA in 1881. After studies in New York and Paris Hrdlička started to work as an anthropologist. He was the one of the first scientists to argue that the Indians immigrated across the Bering Strait from Asia, supporting this theory with detailed field research.

Aleš Hrdlička became the first curator of Physical Anthropology of the U.S. National Museum, now the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in 1903. He was the founder of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Honors

  • In World War II the United States liberty ship SS Ales Hrdlicka was named in his honor.


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