Archibald Reiss
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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. When Serbia was overrun in 1915 he joined the Serbian Army in its retreat across Albania to return with the victorius Serbian army when it liberated Belgrade in the final days of the war. He was known as a great friend of Serbia and the Serbian people and after the war he stayed to live in Serbia.
After the war he tried to modernize the Belgrade police. Over time he seems to have become somewhat disillusioned and withdrew from public life but continuing to live in Belgrade.
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.
