Ridolfo Livi
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Ridolfo Livi (13 July 1856, in Prato – 12 April 1920, in Florence) was an Italian anthropologist.[1]
He graduated in medicine at University of Pavia. He enlisted in the royal army and became a major general in 1917 three years before his death.
In 1888 he was entrusted with a vast anthropological investigation to be the carried out on approximately 300,000 military classes of 1859 and 1863. He concluded his work in 'Antropometria Militare',[2] which consisted of two volumes, the first in 1896 and second in 1905.
References
- ^ "Livi, Ridolfo" (in Italian). Treccani.it. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ Hrdlicka, A. (1905). "Antropometria Militare". American Anthropologist. 7 (3): 531–533. doi:10.1525/aa.1905.7.3.02a00090.
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