Édouard Amant Isidore Hippolyte (Édouard) Lartet
1801–71
French palaeontologist and prehistorian. Trained as a lawyer. Began palaeontological research in the 1830s, and became interested in the question of the antiquity of humans; carried out excavations in 1860 that provided proof of the contemporaneity of humans with extinct animal species. Named professor of palaeontology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1869, but ill health prevented him from fulfilling his duties.
Sources
DSB
Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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