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Bertillon, Alphonse
Born: 1853 AD
Died: 1914 AD, at 60 years of age.
Nationality: French
Categories: Anthropologist, Law Enforcer
Died: 1914 AD, at 60 years of age.
Nationality: French
Categories: Anthropologist, Law Enforcer
1853 - Born on the 23rd of April in Paris, France.
Worked as records clerk in a police department.
1882 - Presented a criminal identification system known as anthropometry for law enforcement.
1884 - The system was quickly adopted widely by American and British police forces.
1899 - Witnessed for the prosecution in the Dreyfus Affair.
Bertillon standardized the criminal mug shot and the evidence picture.
He developed "metric photography".
1914 - Alphonse Bertillon died on 13th of February in Münsterlingen, Switzerland.
He was the father of criminal identification.
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Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902 by Eugenia Parry and Alphonse Bertillon (Hardcover - May 30, 2000)  |
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Signaletic Instruction Including The Theory And Practice Of Anthropometrical Identification by Alphonse Bertillon (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1970) |
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Anthropometrical descriptions: New method of determining individual identity. Conference given at the International Penitentiary Congress at Rome, by Alphonse Bertillon (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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Alphonse Bertillon, father of scientific detection, by Henry T. F Rhodes (Unknown Binding - Aug 30, 1968) |
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Signaletic instructions including the theory and practice of anthropometrical identification: By Alphonse Bertillon by Alphonse Bertillon (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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