Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

LOUIS ADOLPHE BERTILLON (1821-1883)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

LOUIS ADOLPHE See also:BERTILLON (1821-1883)  , See also:French statistician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the ist of See also:April 1821 . Entering the medical profession, he practised as a See also:doctor for a number of years . After the revolution of 187o, he was appointed inspector-See also:general of benevolent institutions . He was one of the founders of the school of See also:anthropology of Paris, and was appointed a See also:professor there in 1876 . His Demographie figuree de la See also:France (1874) is an able statistical study of the See also:population of France . He died at Neuilly on the 28th of See also:February 1883 . His son See also:ALPHONSE See also:BERTILLON, the anthropometrist, was born in Paris in 1853 . He published in 1883 a See also:work Ethnographie moderne See also:des races sauvages, but his See also:chief claim to distinction lies in the See also:system invented by him for the See also:identification of criminals, which is described byhim in his Photographic judiciaire, Paris, 1890 (see ANTIROPOMETRY) . He was officially appointed in 1844 to See also:report on the See also:handwriting of the bordereau in the See also:Dreyfus See also:case, and was a See also:witness for the See also:prosecution before the cour de cassation on the 18th of See also:January 1899 .

End of Article: LOUIS ADOLPHE BERTILLON (1821-1883)
[back]
FERDINAND BERTHOUD (1727-1807)
[next]
BERTIN

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.