Propylaeum

In his biography of Gabriel de Mortillets (1821-1898) Günter Junghans traces back the life and work of this versatile French scholar. This study, including the analysis of extensive original sources at the Department for Pre- and Early History at the University of Saarbrücken and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, not only allows Junghans to emphasize the well-known contributions of Mortillet for research on the Paleolithic Age, but furthermore enables him to concentrate this biography on the “homme politique”.