{"id":1856,"date":"2021-01-04T08:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2021-01-04T08:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:33:40","slug":"bertillonnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/bertillonnage\/","title":{"rendered":"bertillonnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>system for anthropological identification of criminals<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the French anthropologist Alphonse Bertillon (Paris 1853-1914).<\/p>\n<p> Bertillon&#039;s father, Louis-Adolphe (1821-1883), was a professor of demography in Paris and a leading socialist who tried to set up butchers and grocers&#039; cooperatives. He later pioneered studies in anthropology and statistics.<\/p>\n<p> His son Alphonse was the founder and first leader of the identification department of the Paris prefecture. He systematized crime investigation after 1882 using body characteristics, photographs and measurements.<\/p>\n<p>Identification via fingerprints would reveal the bertillonnage to a significant extent.<\/p>\n<p>Hercule Poirot, the hero of Agatha Christie&#039;s detective novels, often calls upon it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>system for anthropological identification of criminals <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/bertillonnage\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eponiemen","infinite-scroll-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcelgrauls.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}