ARCHAEOLOGIST

Henri Breuil

1877 - 1961

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Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil (French pronunciation: [abe bʁœj]), was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He studied cave art in the Somme and Dordogne valleys as well as in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, China with Teilhard de Chardin, Ethiopia, British Somali Coast Protectorate, and especially southern Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Breuil is the 39th most popular archaeologist (up from 45th in 2019), the 2,394th most popular biography from France (up from 2,461st in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Henri Breuil ranks 39 out of 151. Before him are Bogdan Filov, Robert Ballard, André Leroi-Gourhan, Ernst Curtius, Ami Boué, and Wilhelm Dörpfeld. After him are Paul-Émile Botta, Leonard Woolley, John O. Westwood, Hat Hor, Yuri Knorozov, and Johan Gunnar Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Henri Breuil ranks 64. Before him are Renée Vivien, Petar Kočić, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Edmond Locard, and Oscar Milosz. After him are Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Garrett Morgan, Wilhelm Filchner, Sergei Bortkiewicz, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, and Édouard Herzen. Among people deceased in 1961, Henri Breuil ranks 50. Before him are Milan Stojadinović, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Clark Ashton Smith, Domenico Tardini, Shigeko Higashikuni, and Gustav Ucicky. After him are Anna May Wong, Thomas Beecham, Nicola Canali, Maya Deren, Paul Ramadier, and Grandma Moses.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Breuil ranks 2,394 out of 6,770. Before him are Julien Benda (1867), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), Jean Delannoy (1908), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), and Augustin Thierry (1795). After him are Albert Gleizes (1881), Dominique Vandamme (1770), Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763), Ferdinand Hérold (1791), Gonzalo Higuaín (1987), and Francis Garnier (1839).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Henri Breuil ranks 6. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Paul Pelliot (1878), and André Leroi-Gourhan (1911). After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), André Parrot (1901), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), and Jean-François Séguier (1703).

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