historical1853 – 1914
Alphonse Bertillon
police officer · anthropologist · criminologist · photographer · criminal investigator
Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 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.
- Fields
- History of anthropemetry#Bertillon, Galton and criminology
- Nationality
- France
- Born
- 1853
- Died
- 1914
Associated disciplines
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data.Wikipedia · Wikidata (Q568386). Text under CC BY-SA. See attribution.
Portrait: Wikimedia Commons. See Wikimedia Commons file page for license
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