Théodore Monod

Théodore André Monod ( born April 9, 1902 in Rouen, † November 22, 2000 in Versailles ) was a zoologist and explorer.

Théodore Monod was a director of the Institut d' Afrique Noire and professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. 1938 to 1965 he was director of the Institut Français d' Afrique Noire ( IFAN ) in Dakar.

He made ​​several research trips through the Sahara. Near Essouk in Mali, he discovered the approximately 6000 year old skeleton of a humanoid, man of Asselar. In the south of Mauritania, he studied pre-Islamic rock art in the region Tagant and the medieval trading town Aoudaghost.

1984 initiated Monod in Paris with Solange Fernex the first public commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and demanded nuclear disarmament at international level.

Works

  • Méharées, explorations au vrai Sahara ( Méharées, explorations into the real Sahara), Paris 1937
  • L' Émeraude of the Garamantes. Souvenirs d' un Saharien ( The Emerald of the Garamantes. Memories of a resident Sahara ), Paris 1984
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