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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).
| 28-FEB-1877 | born in Mortain, Manche, Normandy, France. | |
| 1903 | was invited by Emile Cartailhac to visit Altamira and started making copies of the paintings. | |
| 1910 | started to teach at the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris. | |
| 1918 | excavated a nearly complete skeletton of a Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis. | |
| 1929 to 1947 | teaching position as Chairman of Prehistory at the Collège de France. | |
| 1938 | becomes a member of the Institut de France. | |
| 1947 | visited rock art sites in Namibia. | |
| 1948 | visited rock art sites in Namibia. | |
| 1950 | visited rock art sites in Namibia. | |
| 14-AUG-1961 | dies in L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France. |
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