Philippe Charlier is a French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist.[1]
Biography
editCharlier was born in Meaux on 25 June 1977. His father is a doctor, his mother a pharmacist. He made his first dig at the age of 10, when he found a human skull. He studied archaeology and art history at the Michelet Institute and was part of the forensic department at Raymond Poincaré University Hospital.[2][3]
Charlier's work has focused on the remains of Richard Lionheart, Agnès Sorel, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, Diane de Poitiers, relics of Louis IX scattered in France, false relics of Joan of Arc, and the presumed head of Henry IV.[4][5] In 2017, he reconfirmed the authenticity of Adolf Hitler's dental remains, the only remains of the Nazi dictator confirmed to have been found.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ "Médecin des morts. Récits de paléopathologie". L'Histoire (in French). December 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
- ^ "Comme un poisson dans l'os". Libération (in French). 9 December 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
- ^ "Philippe Charlier, l'homme qui révèle le secret des morts". Le Figaro (in French). 28 June 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
- ^ "Philippe Charlier, le médecin des têtes couronnées". Le Parisien (in French). 9 October 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
- ^ Charlier P, Huynh-Charlier I, Poupon J, Keyser C, Lancelot E, Favier D, Vignal JN, Sorel P, Chaillot PF, Boano R, Grilletto R, Delacourte S, Duriez JM, Loublier Y, Campos P, Willerslev E, Gilbert MT, Eisenberg L, Ludes B, de la Grandmaison GL (2010). "Multidisciplinary medical identification of a French king's head (Henri IV)". BMJ. 341 (341): c6805. doi:10.1136/bmj.c6805. hdl:2318/81995. PMID 21156748. S2CID 23978748.
- ^ Brisard, Jean-Christophe; Parshina, Lana (2018). The Death of Hitler. Da Capo Press. pp. 224, 273–274. ISBN 978-0306922589.
- ^ O'Malley, J. P. (4 September 2018). "Putin grants authors partial access to secret Soviet archives on Hitler's death". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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