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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Breuil has received more than 99,397 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Henri Breuil is the 39th most popular archaeologist (down from 35th in 2019), the 2,234th most popular biography from France (up from 2,332nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Henri Breuil ranks 39 out of 104Before him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld, George Gaylord Simpson, André Leroi-Gourhan, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Max Mallowan, and Yuri Knorozov. After him are Ernst Curtius, George Smith, Meritites I, Hat Hor, Paul-Émile Botta, and James Henry Breasted.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Henri Breuil ranks 58Before him are Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, James Montgomery Flagg, Edmond Locard, Wilhelm Adam, Frank Marshall, and Garrett Morgan. After him are Edmund Landau, Max Factor, Vladimir Minorsky, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Oscar Milosz, and Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. Among people deceased in 1961, Henri Breuil ranks 44Before him are Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, Maya Deren, Clark Ashton Smith, Herbert Pitman, Valentin Bondarenko, and Anna May Wong. After him are Fyodor Kuznetsov, Max Simon, Mei Lanfang, Milan Stojadinović, Arnold Gesell, and Chico Marx.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Breuil ranks 2,234 out of 6,011Before him are Isaac the Blind (1160), Jean Fautrier (1898), Maurice Pialat (1925), Adela of France (1009), Henri Tresca (1814), and Stanislas de Guaita (1861). After him are Louis Couperin (1626), Jacques Massu (1908), Jean-Marie Guyau (1854), Edward, Count of Savoy (1284), Louis I, Count of Blois (1172), and Maurice Couve de Murville (1907).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Henri Breuil ranks 6Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Paul Pelliot (1878), and André Leroi-Gourhan (1911). After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), Victor Loret (1859), François Bordes (1919), and André Parrot (1901).