Ivan Vučetić
Ivan Vučetić , also Hispanic Juan Vucetich (born July 20, 1858 on the island of Hvar ; Croatia; † January 25, 1925 in Dolores , Buenos Aires ; Argentina) was an Argentine criminalist of Croatian descent.
After completing his apprenticeship as a cooper , Vučetić left his homeland Croatia for economic reasons and moved to Argentina . In 1888 he became an employee of the National Police in La Plata . There he was commissioned as head of the statistics department in 1891 with anthropometric studies to identify perpetrators. It struck him that no two fingerprints were alike. He initially called his method Iknofalangometry, but later renamed it dactyloscopy . Thus Ivan Vučetić recognized independently of Sir Francis Galton , a cousin of Charles Darwin , the value of dactyloscopy for police intelligence work.
After a double murder was solved for the first time worldwide with the help of a fingerprint in La Plata in 1892 , the criminologist ensured the nationwide introduction of dactyloscopy in 1896 and founded the Bureau for Statistics and Recognition in La Plata. Argentina was the first country in the world to introduce this identification system.
From 1911 to 1913, Vučetić continued to work on the examination and classification of fingerprints, in particular for the Argentine government, which had enacted a law on the registration of fingerprints when starting military service. In 1913 he quit his activity and went on a long journey. On his return to Argentina, he found himself in a disappointing situation: after violent protests against the expansion of the registration of fingerprints, the government decided not to do so, confiscated Vučetić's research and forbade him to continue working on the subject.
In honor of Vučetić, the police academy in La Plata bears the name Escuela de policia Juan Vucetich. The Forensic Institute of the Police in Zagreb was also named after him ( The "Ivan Vučetić" Forensic Science Center ).
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- Eduard E. Hueske: Firearms and Fingerprints . Infobase Publishing, 2008, p. 47f. ISBN 9780816055128
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gorazd Mesko, Charles B. Fields, Branko Lobnikar, Andrej Sotlar (Eds.): Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe , Springer Science & Business Media, 2013, p. 34. ISBN 9781461467205
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vučetić, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vucetich, Juan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine criminologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hvar island , Croatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1925 |
| Place of death | Dolores , Buenos Aires , Argentina |