Aleš Hrdlička (1869-1943)

Aleš Hrdlička (1869-1943), as a young man. Hrdlička was a curator at the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History from 1904 to 1941. A Czech native, Hrdlička traveled widely to collect skeletal remains and established the Smithsonian's world-renowned physical anthropology collections. In 1904, he came to head the newly created Division of Physical Anthropology (DPA) at the National Museum of Natural History, a position he held for the next forty years.