Émile Licent
Deceased Person
1876 – 1952
Who was Émile Licent?
Émile Licent was a French Jesuit trained as a natural historian. He spent more than twenty-five years researching in Tianjin. His expeditions spread across various parts of Northern and Central China.
Upon his first arrival at Tianjin in 1914, he established the Musée Hoangho Paiho, one of the earliest of its kind in China. The Museum survived the Second World War and changed its name to Tianjin Natural History Museum in 1952. He was a colleague of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in conducting archeological research in northern provinces of China in the 1920s. He and Chardin were the first to examine the Shuidonggou archaeological site in northern China.
He left China during the Second World War in 1939 after appointing one of his colleagues, Pierre Leroy, as Deputy Director of the Museum. Most of the Quaternary mammal fossils and prehistoric human relics and tools that he and his colleagues discovered remain in the Museum.
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