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Abbé Henri Breuil

(28-FEB-1887 - 1961)

Image: Abbé Breuil around 1900.

Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil was a cleric by profession, but archaeologist and paleontologist by destiny. Although he was a catholic priest and stayed a priest untill he died, he never practised his profession. He is normally called Abbé Breuil, abbé is the French word for priest.

During most of his lifetime, Abbé Breuil was considered the foremost authority on Paleolithic cave art. He explored numerous caves in Europe and Africa, but most of them in France and northern Spain. His fame based very much on his publications, as he copied and published hundreds of examples of rock carvings and paintings. He wrote well-informed interpretations of the significance of prehistoric art.

His principal work is Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art (1952).

Biography

Bibliography

• Henri Breuil, M.C. Burkitt, Montagu Pollock (1928): Rock Paintings of Southern Andalusia: A Description of a Neolithic and Copper Age Art Group, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.
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• Henri Breuil (1933): Les Peintures ruprestres schematiques de la Peninsule Iberique, ()
  
• Henri Breuil, Hugo Obermaier (1935): The Cave of Altamira at Santillana del Mar, Spain, Madrid, 1935. ()
  
• Henri Breuil (1949): Beyond the Bounds of History, Scenes from the Old Stone Age. English Translation by Mary E. Boyle. ()
  
• Henri Breuil (1952): Les figures incisees et ponctuees de la grotte de Kiantapo (Katanga), Tervuren, 18 x 27 cm 55 pp. soft cover illustrated. ()
  
• Henri Breuil (1952): Four Hundred Centuries of Cave Art, Montignac, Dordogne, 1952.
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• Henri Breuil, Mary E. Boyle, E.R. Scherz (1955): The White Lady of the Brandberg, London: Faber and Faber; New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1955. ()
  
• Henri Breuil, Raymond Lantier (1959): Les hommes de la Pierre Ancienne, (Paleolithique et mesolithique). Nouvelle edition revue et augmentee. Paris, Payot 1959. 360 pp. ()
  
• Henri Breuil (1965): The Men of the Old Stone Age, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965. ()
  
• Henri Breuil (1966): Les roches peintes de la Rhodesie du Sud, Les environs de Fort Victoria et d'autres sites, Publications de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Realisations des Editions Trianon, 1966, pt in-folio, 124 pp. ()
  

See also

• Search Google for "Abbé Henri Breuil"
• Henri Breuil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (visited: 23-JUN-2011)
• Breuil, Henri
• Breuil, abbé Henri (1877-1961) ()

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