Calle Doctor Oloriz

The calle Doctor Olóriz, in Fuente del Berro, recalls Federico Olóriz Aguilera, who won the chair of Anatomy at the Madrid Faculty of Medicine in 1883 and taught at the Colegio de San Carlos until his death. There he founded a Laboratory and Museum of Anthropology, gathering 2,124 documented skulls. His name crossed borders through an obsession with measuring. He measured the skull shape of more than eight thousand adult men across Spain, work the Paris Academy of Sciences rewarded. From 1902 he traded skulls for fingertips: he presented his fingerprint identification system in 1903 and published it in 1908, sorting prints by where the deltas of the pattern appeared. The judicial services of Spain and Portugal used the method until computing arrived. The street bearing his surname measures barely 64 meters.