Édouard Amant Isidore Hippolyte (Édouard) Lartet (1801–71)

French palaeontologist and prehistorian. Trained as a lawyer. Began palaeontological research in the 1830s, and became interested in the question of the antiquity of humans; carried out excavations in 1860 that provided proof of the contemporaneity of humans with extinct animal species. Named professor of palaeontology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1869, but ill health prevented him from fulfilling his duties.