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.

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.

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

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