Hrdlička

[ hurd-lich-kuh; Czech hrd-lich-kah ]

noun

1. A·leš [ah, -lesh], 1869–1943, U.S. anthropologist, born in Austria-Hungary.

Example Sentences

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.

From Science Magazine

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

From Science Magazine

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

From Slate

The skeletons Hrdlička studied were categorized as either male or female, seemingly without exception.

From Slate

Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind them, particularly pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

From Nature