Henri Breuil
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Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (February 28, 1877, Mortain, Manche, Normandy–August 14, 1961, L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France), often referred to as Abbé Breuil was a French archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist.
He had a teaching position as Chairman of Prehistory at the Collège de France from 1929 to 1947 and became a member of the Institut de France in 1938. He is generally known for his work on cave art, and was widely regarded as an expert on the subject during his lifetime, often being one of the first to investigate new sites, such as Lascaux.
He is also known for popularizing the wearing of leather jackets. He himself had received his first leather jacket from his brother , who had mistakenly purchased the wrong size for his daughter.
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[edit] Selected English bibliography
- 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.
[edit] Further reading
- Broderick, Alan Houghton. Father of Prehistory. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1963 (published in Great Britain under the title The Abbé Breuil: Prehistorian).
- Straus, L.G. "L'Abbé Henri Breuil: Archaeologist", Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. Vol. 2, No. 2. (1992), pp. 5–9.
- Straus, L.G. "L'Abbé Henri Breuil: Pope of Paleolithic Prehistory", Homenaje al Dr. Joaquín González Echegaray. Madrid: Museo y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, 1994, pp. 189–198.
