Božo Škerlj (28 September 1908 – 10 November 1961) was a Slovene

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, author of eleven books and over 200 scientific articles published in journals at home and abroad. Škerlj was born in Vienna in 1908. He studied biology and geography at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1926. He then specialized in Prague and

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and later in Germany and Norway. In 1944 he was interred in

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and after the end of the Second World War became professor at the University in Ljubljana. He died in 1961 in Ljubljana. He won the

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in 1955 for his travelogue ''Neznana Amerika'' (Unknown America).

Selected published works

* ''Razvoj živega sveta'' (The Development of Life), with Jovan Hadži and

Anton Polenec Anton Polenec (7 October 1910 – 30 October 2000) was a Slovene zoologist and specialist arachnologist. Polenec was born in Puštal near Škofja Loka in 1910. He studied at the University of Ljubljana and later taught zoology and was head of th ...

, 1947 * ''Splošna antropologija v osnovnih potezah'' (General Anthropology in Basic Terms), 1948 * ''Razvoj človeka (antropogeneza)'' (The Development of Man (Anthropogeny)), 1950 * ''Neznana Amerika'' (Unknown America), 1952 * ''Ljudstva brez kovin'' (Peoples Without Metal), 1962 * ''Palme, piramide in puščave'' (Palms, Pyramids and Deserts), 1956 * ''Misleči dvonožec'' (The Thinking Biped), 1963

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