Camille Arambourg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Camille Arambourg

French paleontologist (1885–1969)

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1885

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1969

Profession: paleontologist, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Camille Arambourg (1885–1969) was a French vertebrate paleontologist.
He conducted extensive field work in North Africa.
In the 1950s he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian.
During World War I he was in Military service.
After that he was a professor of Geology at the Institut Agricole d'Alger, and after that a professor of Paleontology at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where he succeeded his teacher Marcellin Boule.