Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.54.1.29
Franjo Ivaniček – physician, anthropologist and racial hygienist
Ana Solter
Abstract
This paper focuses on the professional and scientific career of
Franjo Ivaniček, the first bioarchaeologist in Croatia. During
World War II Ivaniček, an Ustaša Lieutenant, was educated at
the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics
and Eugenics in Berlin (KWI-A), place of birth of most scientific
theories of Nazi eugenics and racial hygiene. He conducted racist
anthropological research following the official racial policy
of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), thus becoming the
head of the Croatian State Anthropological Institute in Zagreb in
1944. After the war, he became the head of the Anthropological
Department of the Institute of Biology at the School of Medicine
of the University of Zagreb. Ivaniček completely changed the
scientific discourse of study of the genesis of the Old Slavic and
modern Yugoslav populations to refute German and Hungarian
scientific theories of German and Avar settlement in Yugoslavia.
Keywords
Franjo Ivaniček, NDH, anthropology, Bijelo Brdo, Ptuj, KWI-A
Hrčak ID:
266477
URI
Publication date:
6.12.2021.
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