Eugene Dubois
| Prof. Eugene Dubois | |||||||||
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||||
| Died | 1940 | ||||||||
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12 Sweelinckplein, The Hague, Holland 45 Zijlweg, Haarlem, Holland [1899] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
museum work academic | ||||||||
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1895.12.10 nominated for Honorary Fellowship
death noted in Report of the Council 1940-1941
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Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940, pronunciation: [yʒɛndybwa] was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man". Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.
In 1897, the University of Amsterdam awarded Dubois an honorary doctorate in botany and zoology, but he had to wait until 1899 for a professorship. In that year, he was appointed a professor in geology, a function that did not keep him from his research in anatomy. He was also (from 1897 until 1928) keeper of paleontology, geology and mineralogy at Teylers Museum,[5] where he also kept the H. erectus remains.
In 1919 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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His paleontological collection and scientific archive remain at Naturalis in Leiden
