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Léon Ortiz
Léon Ortiz, also known as Léon Schiroky and nicknamed the "Rocambole (character), Rocambole of Anarchy", born on 18 November 1868, in Paris and disappearing after 1901, was a French-Mexican accountant, Burglary, burglar, and Anarchism, anarchist militant. He is particularly known for his involvement in the birth of illegalism, of which he was a prominent figure. Orphaned from his father as a child, he grew up in poverty before gradually turning to anarchist activism. In this context, he became politically active with his friends Louise Michel, Charles Malato, and Jacques Prolo, a group that founded ''La Révolution Cosmopolite'', a 1880s anarchist publication in France. Later, as a contributor to ''l'Endehors'', he met Émile Henry (anarchist), Émile Henry, who became his friend. After joining the nascent illegalist movement through his contact with the Intransigents of London and Paris, Intransigeants of London and Paris and Vittorio Pini, Ortiz embarked on a significant series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon (; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement, creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified by name or photograph. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting. He is also the inventor of the mug shot. Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the process. His flawed evidence was used to wrongly convict Alfred Dreyfus in the infamous Dreyfus affair. Biography Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris. He was a son of statistician Louis-Adolphe Bertillon and younger brother of the statistician and demographer Jacques Bertillon. After being expelled from the Imperi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
