Božo Škerlj

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.[1]

Božo Škerlj
Born(1904-09-28)28 September 1904
Vienna, Austria
Died10 November 1961(1961-11-10) (aged 53)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
AwardsLevstik Award
1955 for Neznana Amarika
Scientific career
Fieldsanthropology

Škerlj was born in Vienna in 1908. He studied biology and geography at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1926. He then specialized in Prague and Brno and later in Germany and Norway. In 1944 he was interred in Dachau concentration camp and after the end of the Second World War became professor at the University in Ljubljana. He died in 1961 in Ljubljana.[2]

He won the Levstik Award in 1955 for his travelogue Neznana Amerika (Unknown America).[3]

Selected published works
  • Razvoj živega sveta (The Development of Life), with Jovan Hadži 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
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References
  1. Božo Škerlj at the Slovene Biographical Lexicon site
  2. Slovenian Ethnographc Museum site On line volumes of journal: Slovenski etnograf 23/24 1970/1971; Petar Vlahović: Dr. Božo Škerlj in njegov pomen za etnično antropologijo (Dr. Božo Škerlj and his Importance for National Anthropology)
  3. "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
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