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