BIOLOGY
Ales Hrdlicka
(1869-1943)
Ales Hrdlicka was a very influential physical anthropologist. He was born to Maximilian Hrdlicka and Karolina Wagner on March 30, 1869. He was born to this Bohemian family in a little town called Humpolec, in what is now Czechoslovakia.
Hrdlicka became interested in anthropology, a science that was new at the time. He went to Paris to study under the direction of Professor Manovrier at the Ecole d Anthropologie among other schools. When he returned to the United States he built an anthropology laboratory and started collecting information on the characteristics of Americans. He began to move his career into the field of anthropology.
