Ivan Vučetić by Marina Zorić
Trgovačka škola, Zagreb
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ABOUT HIM • Ivan Vucetić or Juan Vucetich • an anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of forensic fingerprinting
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HIS CHILDHOOD • born in Hvar, Dalmatia, on July 20, 1858 • eldest of eleven children • active and curious young man with restless spirit
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EDUCATION • • • • •
a school run by Franciscan Marojević
met a lot of famous scientists studied Italian and German language attended music school too
went to Pula to serve in the navy as a cadet
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LIFE IN ARGENTINA • emigrated to Argentina in 1882 • from Trieste he travelled with his brother as a „blind passenger” • got a job as a trainee at the central police administration in La Plata • later worked as a police official and anthropologist
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HIS INVENTION • the first workable system of fingerprint identification • pioneered the first use of fingerprint evidence in a murder investigation • in 1891 Vucetić began the first filing of fingerprints based on ideas of Francis Galton which he expanded significantly
• his fingerprint classification system was adopted by Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and later throughout South America
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THE ROJAS CASE • made the first positive identification of a criminal in a case where Francisca Rojas had killed her two children and then cut her throat, trying to put the blame on the outside attacker
• a bloody print identified her as the killer
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SCIENTIFIC WORK • in 1904 published Dactiloscopía Comparada („Comparative Dactyloscopy”)
• travelled to India and China and attended scientific conferences to gather more data
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LEGACY • in his honor, the Buenos Aires province police academy, near La Plata, has been named Escuela de Policía „Juan Vucetich” (Juan Vucetich Police Academy), and an eponymous museum was also founded
• The police Center for Forensics Examinations (Centar za kriminalistička vještačenja "Ivan Vučetić") in Zagreb, Croatia is also named after him
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LEGACY • a bust in his birth town, in Hvar City on the island of Hvar
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INTERESTING FACTS • He is the author of many acts in the field of dactyloscopy • Also, he was a member of the French Academy and the Anthropological Institute in Paris.
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INTERESTING FACTS • Vučetić visited his native Hvar in 1913 as part of his world tour. On that occasion, he also gifted a copy of his famous book "Dactiloscopia comparada" with the dedication "With due respect to the municipality of my beloved homeland".
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VuÄ?etić's personal
identification card
VuÄ?etić's fingerprint card front and back
REFERENCES • • • •
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/biographies/vucetich.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Vucetich https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vucetic http://en.genius-croatia.com/dt_portfolio/ivan-vucetic/
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