Bernard Heuvelmans

Bernard Heuvelmans , born the October 10th 1916 with the Harbor and deceased on August 22nd 2001, is a Belgian zoologist of nationality . He is the founder of the Cryptozoologie and devoted many work to the “still unknown animal forms” such as the Yéti or the Monstre of the Log Born.

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Initially Mammalian specialist in the S, it devotes his thesis to the Oryctérope and becomes science Doctor (Zoologie) in 1939. It is interested then in the animals unknown or disappeared and created a news Science: the Cryptozoologie.

It gives the following definition of it: “The scientific study of the hidden animals, i.e. still unknown animal forms, on the subject of which one has only testimonial and circumstantial evidence, or material proofs considered to be insufficient by some”.

It signs in 1955 the work founder of this discipline, On the track of the ignored animals . The work will profit from a great popularity, since it will be diffused with nearly a million specimens according to Jean-Jacques Barloy.

Thereafter, it devotes work to the large marine animals the depths ( In the wake of the marine monsters , 1958) before cosigner with the Russian historian Boris Porchnev a volume of Cryptoanthropologie entitled the man of Néanderthal is always alive, 1974 . It supports there that large Hominides and large not indexed monkeys survived and coexist with the man everywhere on planet. These theories will be worth incredulity to him even the contempt of the scientific community in spite of the support of celebrities of research, in particular on the monkeys and the man, such as the paleontologist Louis Leakey, the discoverer of the Coelacanthe James Leonard Brierley Smith or Rémy Chauvin.

He is elected president of the International Society off Cryptozoology with his foundation in 1982. Among the members of honor will appear Theodore Monod, support of long time of Bernard Heuvelmans, but also Sir Peter Scott, J. Napier and André Capart.

He dies in 2001, leaving the whole of his files and collections to the cantonal Museum of Zoology to Lausanne.

He was the husband of the novelist Monique Watteau, so known as painter and dessinatrice under the name of Alika Lindbergh.

In 2007, Jean-Jacques Barloy, another cryptozoologist, devotes a biography entitled to him a Rebel of science .

Selected bibliography

1944 : the Man among stars.
1945 : the Man with the hollow of the atom.
1951 : Of the bamboula to the be-bop.
1951 : the Secrecy of park, the prolongation of the life.
1951 : the Secrecy of park, the suppression of death.
1952 : the Secrecy of park, the renovation.
1955 : On the track of the ignored animals.
1958 : In the wake of the marine monsters.
1965 : the Large Alarming specter.
1974 : the Man of Néanderthal is always alive (with Boris Porchnev).
1978: the Last Large Dragons of Africa.
1980 : human Animals of Africa.
2007 : Cat-like the still unknown ones of Africa.

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