Philippe Charlier

Philippe Charlier is a French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist.[1]

Biography

Charlier 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] His work has focused on the study of 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 Hitler's dental remains from a jawbone fragment in the Soviet archives.[6]

References

1. "Médecin des morts. Récits de paléopathologie". L'Histoire (in French). December 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
2. "Comme un poisson dans l'os". Libération (in French). 9 December 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
3. "Philippe Charlier, l'homme qui révèle le secret des morts". Le Figaro (in French). 28 June 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
4. "Philippe Charlier, le médecin des têtes couronnées". Le Parisien (in French). 9 October 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2018..
5. 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. PMID 21156748.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
6. Brisard, Jean-Christophe; Parshina, Lana (2018). The Death of Hitler. Da Capo Press. pp. 224, 273–274. ISBN 978-0306922589.