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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleš Hrdlička has received more than 123,791 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Aleš Hrdlička is the 41st most popular anthropologist (up from 53rd in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from Czechia (up from 445th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 41 out of 93. Before him are Henry Fairfield Osborn, Marcel Griaule, Jean Malaurie, David Graeber, Paolo Mantegazza, and Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring. After him are Louis Dumont, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, Birutė Galdikas, and Raymond Firth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 87. Before him are Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Nicolae Paulescu, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Kiến Phúc, and Ludwig von Reuter. After him are Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Ben Turpin, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, Harvey Cushing, Albert Kahn, and Edwin Lutyens. Among people deceased in 1943, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 112. Before him are Ricardo Viñes, Gyula Peidl, Kostis Palamas, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Ludwig von Reuter, and Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia. After him are Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Ernst Trygger, George Washington Carver, Winnaretta Singer, and Yury Tynyanov.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 381 out of 1,200. Before him are Ferenc Wesselényi (1605), Georg Flegel (1566), Vlastimil Hort (1944), Jan Václav Voříšek (1791), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), and Alfred Neubauer (1891). After him are Jan Zajíc (1950), Saul Friedländer (1932), Theodor Gomperz (1832), Ladislav Novák (1931), Václav Nedomanský (1944), and Theodor von Oppolzer (1841).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among anthropologists born in Czechia, Aleš Hrdlička ranks 1. After him are Lubor Niederle (1865).

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