Božo Škerlj

Božo Škerlj (born September 28, 1904 in Vienna , † November 10, 1961 in Ljubljana ) was a Yugoslav anthropologist .

Life

Božo Škerlj studied biology and geography at the University of Ljubljana and received his doctorate in Prague in 1927 . In 1933 he became a private lecturer in physical anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. From 1936 to 1938 he was editor of the magazine Evgenika . From 1943 he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp . In 1946 he became associate professor, in 1953 full professor at the University of Ljubljana.

Publications (selection)

• Human body and physical exercise. Nakł. Towarzystwa naukowego warszawskiego, Warsaw 1936.
• The racial classification of mankind , in: Journal for Rassenkunde and the entire research on humans , volume 4.1936, pp. 284-306
• On the racial studies of the Yugoslavs , in: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde and the entire human research , volume 7.1938, pp. 145-181 ( review in: American Anthropologist , Volume 40.1938, pp. 745 f)
• Menarche and Environment , in: Journal for Human Heredity and Constitutional Theory, Volume 23.1939, pp. 299–359
• Razvoj človeka (Human Development), 1950

literature

• Škerlj, Božo , in: Enciklopedija Slovenije , Volume 13, p. 44
• Zmagoslav Bufon, Škerlj, Božo , in: Slovenski biografski leksikon , Volume 11, 1971
• Josef Brožek, In memoriam: Božo Škerlj, anthropologist (1904–1961) , in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology , Volume 35.1971, pp. 1–11
• Christian Promitzer, Measured Bodies. “Racial” demarcation in south-eastern Europe (PDF; 866 kB) , in: Europe and the borders in the head , ed. v. Karl Kaser et al., 2003, ISBN 3-85129-511-0 , pp. 365–393 (especially p. 384 f.)