Aleš Hrdlička
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Aleš Hrdlička (March 30, 1869–April 5, 1943) was a Czech anthropologist living in the United States. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia (today in the Czech Republic).
His family emigrated in the U.S. in 1881. After studies in New York and Paris Hrdlička started to work as an anthropologist. He was one of the first scientists to argue that the Indians migrated 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.
[edit] Honors
- In World War II the United States liberty ship SS Ales Hrdlicka was named in his honor.
[edit] External links
- EMuseum short biography Minnesota State University
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