Jean Piveteau

Jean Piveteau ( born September 23, 1899 in Rouillac ( Charente ), † March 7, 1991 in Paris) was a French paleontologist. His particular interest was the fossil vertebrates and the evolution of man.

Piveteau went to Angouleme and Paris to school.

In 1960 he became an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. He was since 1956 a member of the Academie des Sciences and was president of the Institut de France. He studied in Paris at Marcelin Boule and was then at the Ecole des Mines. In 1938 he became a lecturer ( Maître de Conférences ) at the Sorbonne and in 1942 he became a professor of paleontology. He had a broad philosophical and cultural background and taught alongside Paleontology and 1941-1945 Methodology of science and logic. He sponsored excavations on prehistoric people in France as President of the Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche Archéologique and in particular cooperation with and excavations in Israel (he was temporarily President, founded by Jean Perrot society Paléorient ) and addressed himself especially with Neanderthals.

He was the first president of the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin ( 1964-1982 ), his successor Henry de Lumley. With Teilhard de Chardin, he was a friend since student days.

He is also known as the editor of a French written by leading professionals Handbook of paleontology.

Works

• Publisher: Traité de paléontologie, 7 volumes, 1952 to 1969 (of him especially contributions to band 7 for Paleoanthropology )
• Des premiers à l' homme Vertebres (1973 )
• Origine et de l' homme Destinée (1983 )
• La Main et l' hominisation (1991 )