Heinrich Wilhelm Poll

Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (5 August 1877 – 12 June 1939) was a German physician, geneticist and physical anthropologist.

He worked as an assistant to Oscar Hertwig at the Anatomisch-Biologisches Institut in the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.

[1][2] He completed his habilitation in 1904 and have a public lecture titled Ueber die Bewertung anthropologischer Reihen (On the Evaluation of Anthropological Series).

He then moved to Sweden with support from Herman Nilsson-Ehle and Arne Müntzing to work at the University of Lund in 1939.

His wife Clara Poll-Cords reached Sweden a bit later due to bureaucratic delays and she committed suicide on August 5th, her husband's birthday.