Henri Breuil

Abbe Henri Breuil
Born	1877
Died	1961
Residence	37 rue de Lausanne, Fribourg, Switzerland [1908] 110 Rue Demours, Paris [1911] 52 Avenue de la Motte-Picquet, Paris 16 [1949]
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow Hon. fellow from 1919 elected_AI 1908.04.12

Notes

House Notes

Proposed by C.H. Read, O.M. Dalton 1908.03.10

Prof. Institut de Paléontologie humaine, Paris

1941 HML The discovery of the antiquity of man: some of the evidence Delivered before the Institute on Apr. 16th 1946 [unable to deliver in 1941 due to war]

Notes From Elsewhere

Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil, was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He is noted for his studies of cave art in the Somme and Dordogne valleys as well as in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, China with Teilhard de Chardin, Ethiopia, British Somaliland, and especially Southern Africa.

Publications

External Publications

Rock Paintings of Southern Andalusia: A Description of a Neolithic and Copper Age Art Group (with M.C. Burkitt and Montagu Pollock). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.
The Cave of Altamira at Santillana del Mar, Spain (with Hugo Obermaier). Madrid, 1935. Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art. Montignac, Dordogne, 1952.
The White Lady of the Brandberg (with Mary E. Boyle and E.R. Scherz). London: Faber and Faber; New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1955. The Men of the Old Stone Age. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965.
The Paintings of the Tsisab Ravine
The Rock Paintings of Southern Africa (with Mary E. Boyle)

House Publications

Palaeolithic man at Gibraltar 1922