Henri Breuil
| Abbe Henri Breuil LLD | |||||||
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| 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 [1929] | ||||||
| Occupation |
church archaeologist anthropologist ethnologist | ||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1908.03.10 Proposed by C.H. Read, O.M. Dalton
1919.11.11 nominated as Hon. Fellow
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]
1961.10.05 death noted
Prof. Institut de Paléontologie humaine, Paris
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