Archibald Reiss
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publicist, a professor at the University of Lausanne and famous criminologist.
Dr. Archibald Rudolph Reiss (1876 Lausanne, Switzerland - 1929 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was a publicist, a professor at the University of Lausanne and a famous criminologist.
Upon the invitation of the Serbian Government he carried out an inquiry on Hungarian, German and Bulgarian atrocities in Serbia during World War I and published the reports in European papers. He has tried to modernize the Belgrade police. He went across Albania with the Serbian Army during World War I. He was known as a great friend of Serbia and the Serbian people and after the war he stayed to live in Serbia. He was one of the founders of the Red Cross of Serbia. After his death his heart was buried on the mountain Kajmakčalan and his body in the cemetery Topcidersko groblje.
External links
- Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion of Serbia by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss (http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosta/knjige/book-REPORT-reiss.html)
- Un Sherlock Holmes vaudois Rodolphe Archibald Reiss (http://www2.unil.ch/BCU/informations/expositions/2000/e_reiss.htm)sr: Арчибалд Рајс