René Neuville

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René Neuville (born October 20, 1899 in Gibraltar , † June 23, 1952 in Jerusalem ) was a French diplomat and prehistoric .

Life

Neuville was born the son of the French consul general in Gibraltar. He began his diplomatic career early on at the consulate in Ventimiglia on the Italian Riviera . In 1926 he was appointed chancellor at the consulate in Jerusalem, where he stayed for almost 11 years. During this time he was concerned with the study of the prehistory of Palestine and subsequently published some monographs with other archaeologists and wrote archaeological articles in specialist journals. In 1933 he made a test cut in the terrace of El Khiam .

In 1933, while excavating a cave on Jebel Qafzeh near Nazareth , Neuville discovered the remains of five people who were buried there in the Middle Paleolithic . Another discovery this year was the discovery of an eleven thousand year old figure of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture near Bethlehem . These so-called lovers of Ain Sakhri come from the Ain Sakhri Cave near Bethlehem and have been in the British Museum in London since 1958 .

In 1937 he became consul in Alicante , then in Gibraltar. At the beginning of the Second World War he moved to Morocco , where he continued his research. After the liberation of Algeria by the Allies, he went to Algiers and later to Tunis . In 1946 he was appointed consul general to Jerusalem. After the attack by the Irgun on July 22, 1946 on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, he sent a situation report to the French Foreign Ministry on July 24. He continued his research, but the unsettled situation in post-war Palestine left him little time or opportunity for this work. In 1951 his last publication on the Paleolithic and Mesolithic in the Judean Desert was published in Paris.

Publications

  • with Robert Köppel and Alexis Mallon: Teleilāt Ghassūl
    • Vol. 1: Compte rendu des fouilles de l'Institut Pontifical 1929–1932 . Rome 1934.
    • Vol. 2: Compte rendu des fouilles de l'Institut Pontifical 1932–1936 . (= Scripta pontificii instituti biblici 87), Rome 1940.
  • with Armand Ruhlmann: La place du paleolithique ancien dans le quaternaire marocain . Farraire, Casablanca, Morocco 1941.
  • with Y. Bentor: Le paléolithique et le mésolithique du Desert de Judée . (= Archives de l'Institut de paleontologie humaine. Mémoire 24) Masson, Paris 1951.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A rocking chair from Bethlehem in Frankfurter Rundschau of July 18, 2013, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Neuville, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat and prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gibraltar
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1952
Place of death Jerusalem