Henri Fleisch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henri Fleisch

archaeologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1904

Place of Birth: Jonvelle, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1985

Profession: missionary, university teacher, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Henri Fleisch

  • Reverend Father Henri Fleisch (1 January 1904 – 10 February 1985) was a French archaeologist, missionary and Orientalist, known for his work on classical Arabic language and Lebanese dialect and prehistory in Lebanon.
  • Fleisch spent years recording and recovering lithics from prehistoric Lebanese archaeological sites and in 1954, it was confirmed that he had discovered and named a previously unknown proto-Neolithic culture in Lebanon called the Qaraoun culture that used a flint industry he termed Heavy Neolithic.Fleisch was born in Jonvelle (Haute-Saône), France.
  • He entered the Society of Jesus in Lyon Fourvière in September 1921 and was ordained a Catholic priest on 24 August 1933, he celebrated his first mass at Jonvelle on August 27.
  • Fleisch was largely self-taught, specialising in oriental studies, for which he earned a doctorate at the Sorbonne in May 1943 with a thesis published on "Work and Memoirs of the Institute of Ethnology in Paris".
  • He made many trips abroad and settled in Lebanon, where he discovered in Bikfaya in 1923-1926.
  • He did his military service in Syria and was injured during a confrontation.
  • Mobilized in 1939, he was taken prisoner June 19, 1940 and held at Stalag XII, from where he was released in February 1941.
  • From August 1945 he taught at the "Institut des Lettres Orientales" of Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
  • It was here that many of his archaeological finds were stored and in 2000 they formed The Museum of Lebanese Prehistory where many of his finds are stored and displayed.
  • The museum celebrated their tenth anniversary with a posthumous exhibition of Fleisch's photography and work entitled "Prehistory vs.
  • Urbanization".
  • He died, aged 81, in Lebanon, where he was buried. He was the author of two hundred forty publications, including the Eastern dialects and was a specialist in Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac and Hebrew.
  • He also wrote a small booklet on the French regional patois vocabulary of Jonvelle in 1951.
  • He was the author of the Treaty of Arabic philology in 1961 and 1977.
  • He distinguished himself by combining research prehistory and geology, discovering the site of Naama and carrying out work at Tell Jisr and Ras Beyrouth.
  • Fleisch's most famous works are Introduction à l'Étude des langues sémitiques (1947), L'Arabe classique (1968) and Traité de philologie arabe, 1-2 (1961–79).

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