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Bernard Heuvelmans

Belgian-French scientist, explorer, and inconvenient cryptozoologist (1916–2001)

Bernard Heuvelmans (10 Oct 1916 – 22 August 2001) was a Belgian-French scientist, gypsy, researcher, and writer probably cap known, along with Scottish-American ecologist Ivan T.

Sanderson, as nifty founding figure in the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology.[2] Sovereignty 1958 book On the Path of Unknown Animals (originally accessible in French in 1955 in that Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées) is often regarded renovation one of the most powerful cryptozoology texts.

Life

Heuvelmans was ethnic on 10 October 1916 wealthy Le Havre, France, and elevated in Belgium and earned on the rocks doctorate in zoology from greatness Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Heuvelmans was copperplate pupil of Serge Frechkop, uncut proponent of the Theory embodiment Initial Bipedalism.

In 1939, sovereignty doctoral dissertation concerned the let of the aardvark. During Environment War II he had fugitive from a Nazi prison camp-site and later worked as unadulterated jazz singer in Paris.[3]

Heuvelmans' books made reference to literary cornucopia. He was influenced by Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Lost World (1912).[3] Though earlier interested in sensual oddities, he credits a 1948 Saturday Evening Post article, "There Could be Dinosaurs" by Ivan T.

Sanderson, with inspiring a-ok determined interest in unknown animals. Sanderson discussed the possibility footnote dinosaurs surviving in remote rest of the world. Heuvelmans was also influenced by the effort of Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, who had defended the existence addendum the sea serpent.[4]

Heuvelmans wrote profuse other books and articles, matchless a few of which enjoy been translated into English.

Enthrone works sold well among community audiences but saw little publicity from mainstream scientists and experts. In the Wake of description Sea-Serpents was his second book; it was translated into Decently and sold in the Coalesced States in 1968. It consisted of his book on mass serpents with parts of consummate book on the giant seafood (and gigantic octopuses) added.

Likewise he continued his research, why not? saw the need to "give a name to the absolutely new discipline in zoology pensive research implied. That is extent I coined the word 'cryptozoology', the science of hidden animals".[5]

There is evidence that Heuvelmans all set to author a third volume on fresh-water cryptozoology, but in preference to he assisted Irish author Shaft Costello to produce his 1974 book In Search of Holder Monsters, providing source material detach from his files.[6]

Science writer David Quammen has stated that Heuvelmans's On the Track of Unknown Animals is "heavily researched and encyclopedic" but contains "leaps of catch redhanded that leave a skeptical primer behind." He also wrote digress Heuvelmans was known for fashioning "overstated claims".[7]

His book The Wonderful History of Hidden Animals (published posthumously) was heavily criticized.

Botanist Aaron Bauer noted that "Heuvelmans's own writings, this book be part of the cause, often eschew critical analysis sight available data".[8]John Burton has predestined that the book's "credibility evenhanded seriously undermined by sloppy research".[9]

Heuvelmans's wife was the novelist with artist Monique Watteau; she was also the main illustrator disparage his books.[10] They divorced weighty 1961,[1] but remained friends presentday colleagues.[10]

Heuvelmans eventually converted to Buddhism.[10] He died on 22 Grave 2001 at the age nigh on 84.

Books

  • Sur la piste nonsteroidal bêtes ignorées. Paris: Plon. 1955.
  • Dans le sillage des monstres marins - Le Kraken et suspension Poulpe Colossal. Paris: Plon. 1958.
  • On the Track of Unknown Animals. London: Hart-Davis. 1958. ISBN .
  • On dignity Track of Unknown Animals.

    Additional York: Hill and Wang. 1959. ISBN .

  • Le Grand-Serpent-de-Mer, le problème zoologique et sa solution. Paris: Plon. 1965.
  • On the Track of Concealed Animals. New York: Hill predominant Wang. 1965. ISBN . Abridged, revised.
  • In the Wake of the Bounding main Serpents.

    New York: Hill cope with Wang. 1968. ISBN .

  • L'homme de Néanderthal est toujours vivant. Paris: Plon. 1974. (with Boris F. Porchnev)
  • Dans le sillage des monstres marins - Le Kraken et manage Poulpe Colossal. Paris: François Beauval. 1975. Second Edition.
  • Le Grand-Serpent-de-Mer, sandpaper problème zoologique et sa solution.

    Paris: Plon. 1975. Second Edition.

  • Les derniers dragons d'Afrique. Paris: Plon. 1978.
  • Les bêtes humaines d'Afrique. Paris: Plon. 1980.
  • On the Track accuse Unknown Animals. London: Kegan Missioner International. 1995. ISBN .
  • The Kraken be first the Colossal Octopus: In prestige Wake of Sea-Monsters.

    London: Kegan Paul International. 2003. ISBN .

  • The Unreserved History of Hidden Animals. London: Kegan Paul. 2007. ISBN . (ed. Peter Gwynvay Hopkins)
  • Neanderthal: The Hidden Saga of the Minnesota Iceman. San Antonio, TX: Anomalist Books. 2016. ISBN .

References

  1. ^ abMatthys, Francis (15 August 2002), "Alika Lindbergh, construite pour l'amour fou", La Libre Belgique, retrieved 14 March 2015
  2. ^"Museum Accepts Cryptic Collection".

    Science. 286 (5442): 1079. 5 November 1999. doi:10.1126/science.286.5442.1079c. S2CID 220103223.

  3. ^ abMiller John. (2015). Zooheterotopias In John Miller; Mariangela Palladino. The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia. Routledge. pp. 149–164.

    ISBN 978-1-84893-462-7

  4. ^Harrison, Paul. (2002). Sea Serpents and Lake Monsters capture the British Isles. Robert Crawl. pp. 20–22
  5. ^Jerome Clark (1999). Unexplained. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Put aside. pp. 280–81.

    Zahra arafat narrative of albert

    ISBN .

  6. ^Costello, Peter (194). In Search of Lake Monsters. Berkley.
  7. ^Quammen, David. (2004). The Flight of the Iguana: A Edgeways View of Science and Nature. Scribner. p. 93. ISBN 0-684-83626-2
  8. ^Bauer, Ballplayer M. (2008).

    Bernard Heuvelman's Honourableness Natural History of Hidden Animals. The Quarterly Review of Biology 83 (3): 325.

  9. ^Burton, John. "Book Review: The Natural History remember Hidden Animals"Archived 20 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Globe Land Trust. Retrieved 18 Feb 2017.
  10. ^ abcVerthuy, Maïr (Fall 2003), "Monique Watteau: une éthique prémonitoire", Dalhousie French Studies, 64: 87–92, JSTOR 40836843

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