ANTHROPOLOGIST

Aleš Hrdlička

1869 - 1943

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Alois Ferdinand Hrdlička, after 1918 changed to Aleš Hrdlička (Czech pronunciation: [ˈa.lɛʃ ˈɦr̩d.lɪtʃ.ka]; March 30, 1869 – September 5, 1943), was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia (today in the Czech Republic). Hrdlička was a pioneer in the field of anthropology and the first curator of physical anthropology of the Smithsonian Museum from 1904 until 1941. He correctly theorized that migration from Asia to the Americas via the Bering Strait was the origin of the American Indians, but incorrectly dated that migration as having occurred not more than 3,000 years ago. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleš Hrdlička is the 57th most popular anthropologist (down from 41st in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 381st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 57 out of 93. Before him are Bengt Danielsson, Gilberto Freyre, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Maurice Godelier, Fei Xiaotong, and Bill Mollison. After him are Arjun Appadurai, Gayle Rubin, James C. Scott, Max Gluckman, Robert Lowie, and Georges Balandier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 110. Before him are Georgette Leblanc, Dmitri Egorov, Albert Kahn, Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiến Phúc, and Marcel Cachin. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Johannes Linnankoski, Armas Järnefelt, Sergey Chaplygin, Ivan Aguéli, and Daniel Salamanca Urey. Among people deceased in 1943, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 150. Before him are Lucien Démanet, Doris Miller, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Helen Herron Taft, Kristjan Raud, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama. After him are Damrong Rajanubhab, Mihailo Petrović, Vittorio Sella, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Nikolai Avksentiev, and George Hillyard.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 507 out of 1,200. Before him are Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (1782), Daniela Hodrová (1946), Alfred Neubauer (1891), Josef Čtyřoký (1906), Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), and Erich Srbek (1908). After him are Jiří Hájek (1913), Olga Taussky-Todd (1906), Harun Farocki (1944), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Antonín Švehla (1873), and Adolf Šimperský (1909).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among anthropologists born in Czechia, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 2. Before him are Lubor Niederle (1865).

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