Rudolf Martin (anthropologist)

[1] Rudolf Martin was a Professor of Physical Anthropology in Munich, who had become inspired by the discovery of the ‘Java Man’ (Pithecanthropus erectus) in 1893 in Java, by the Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois.

Dubois' publications on the 'Missing Link' became the CenterPoint of the Archive of Rudolf Martin, comprising more than 43,000 historical documents, manuscripts, scientific books and journals.

[citation needed] The Archive been safeguarded in 1940 from Germany just before WW II.

After rescuing it from destruction, Slikkerveer became the owner of the oldest palaeo-anthropological archive in the world.

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