Edouard Dupont
| Dr Edouard Dupont | |||||||||
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| Born | 1841 | ||||||||
| Died | 1911 | ||||||||
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Dinant [1866] Directeur du Musee, Brussels [1869] Directeur du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 31 rue Vautier, Brussels. [1894] | ||||||||
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museum work geologist | ||||||||
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1866.04.03 proposed
A5 151 Paul Broca, Sécrétaire general, Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 3 rue de l’Abbaye, Paris, Hon. Fellow ASL to ?JH, 29 June 1866 – on Prof. D’Omalius d’Halloy of Brussels, Corresponding Member of ASL; Edouard Dupont and Van Benedon; gives warm invitation to Paris
278 Edouard Dupont, Dinant; Directeur du Musée, Brussels; Corresponding Member, ASL to CCB, 6 July 1866 – will be pleased to see him; see ‘Report on the researches of Dr Edouard Dupont in the Belgian bone-caves on the banks of the river Lesse’ by C. Carter Blake, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 315-50; see also 244
1899.12.12 nominated for election as Hon. Member
Notes From Elsewhere
Edouard Dupont, Dinant, 1841 - Cannes 1911
Geologist and Director of the Natural History Museum in Brussels, born in Dinant, Edouard Dupont searched thoroughly for 1864-1868 caves limestone massif Furfooz-Falmignoul, Montaigle (Valley Molignee) and Goyet (Rau Samson) .
He collected a huge amount of bones and tools he looked stratigraphic position with great care. He introduced the results of his research in numerous publications which he summarized in his book: The man for the ages of the stone. Thanks to the determination of the stratigraphic position of the different levels of human occupation, it was possible for him to parallelize our quaternary industries and those of France. It is also Edouard Dupont, who discovered and identified the famous jaw Naulette of néandertaloïde kind.
In 1868 he became director of the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium. In 1869, he was elected a full member of the Academy. In 1884, he became president and director of the Science class. From July 1887 to February 1888, he traveled to the Belgian Congo.
November 31, 1909, the geologist, prehistorian, anatomist, paleontologist and team leader gives up his position as Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History. He died in Cannes March 31, 1911.
Publications
External Publications
1889, Letters on the Congo: The story of a scientific journey from the river mouth and the confluence of the Kasai