Hrdlička

[hurd-lich-kuh, hrd-lich-kah]

noun

1. Aleš 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.

Example Sentences

Aleš Hrdlička, a Bohemian-born anthropologist, became the institution’s first curator of physical anthropology in 1904.

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At that year’s St. Louis World’s Fair, Hrdlička gathered some 200 brains and skeletons, mostly of Native Americans, who died during the fair.

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In the early 1900s, Aleš Hrdlička of NMNH, who helped found the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in 1928, continued to use human remains, often stolen from Indigenous communities, to study race and promote eugenics.

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Hrdlička, who was white and whom Redman describes as “deeply racist,” was the driving force behind NMNH’s skeletal collection.

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In the early 1900s, the U.S.-based anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička helped to found the modern study of human bones.

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