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BERTILLON, Alphonse (1853 – 1914)

BERTILLON, Alphonse (1853 – 1914)

1853 – 1914

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1886 CE

#181

Les signalements anthropométriques.

BERTILLON, Alphonse (1853 – 1914)
BERTILLON, Alphonse (1853 – 1914)

Bertillon invented a method (“Bertillonage”) of identifying persons by means of selected measurements, the five following measurements being used as the basis of his system: head length, head breadth, leng…