Božo Škerlj (28 September 1908 – 10 November 1961) was a Slovene anthropologist, author of eleven books and over 200 scientific articles published in journals at home and abroad. Škerlj was born in

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in 1908. He studied

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and

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at the

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and graduated in 1926. He then specialized in

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and Brno and later in

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and

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. In 1944 he was interred in Dachau concentration camp and after the end of the

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became professor at the University in Ljubljana. He died in 1961 in

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. He won the Levstik Award in 1955 for his

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''Neznana Amerika'' (Unknown America).

Selected published works

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

Jovan Hadži Jovan Hadži (; 22 November 1884 – 11 December 1972) was a Slovenian zoologist of Serbian origin. Biography Hadži was born in a Serbian family in Temišvar (today Timișoara, Romania) in what was then Austria-Hungary. He began his career in Zag ...

and Anton Polenec, 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

References

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