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See also:BERTILLON, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS ADOLPHE (1821-1883) , See also:French statistician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the ist of See also:April 1821. Entering the medical profession, he practised as a See also:doctor for a number of years. After the revolution of 187o, he was appointed inspector-See also:general of benevolent institutions. He was one of the founders of the school of See also:anthropology of Paris, and was appointed a See also:professor there in 1876. His Demographie figuree de la See also:France (1874) is an able statistical study of the See also:population of France. He died at Neuilly on the 28th of See also:February 1883.
His son See also:ALPHONSE BERTILLON, the anthropometrist, was born in Paris in 1853. He published in 1883 a See also:work Ethnographie
moderne See also:des races sauvages, but his See also:chief claim to distinction lies in the See also:system invented by him for the See also:identification of criminals, which is described byhim in his Photographic judiciaire, Paris, 1890 (see ANTIROPOMETRY). He was officially appointed in 1844 to See also:report on the See also:handwriting of the bordereau in the See also:Dreyfus See also:case, and was a See also:witness for the See also:prosecution before the cour de cassation on the 18th of See also:January 1899.
End of Article: BERTILLON, LOUIS ADOLPHE (1821-1883)
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