Marie Joseph Maximin "Max" Lohest (8 September 1857 – 6 December 1926) was a Belgian paleontologist and geologist. He served as an influential professor at the

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and was involved in the discovery of Neanderthal remains in

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in 1886. Lohest was born in Liège to businessman Joseph Lohest and was educated at the Jesuit College where Father van Trient sparked an interest in the natural sciences. He then went to the School of Mines at the University of Liège. He received a diploma in 1883 and assisted Gustave Dewalque in teaching geology. In In 1897 he replaced Dewalque as professor of general geology. He collaborated with

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who handled paleontology and

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. He helped establish the School of Anthropology between 1914 and 1918. Lohest examined fossils, studied mineralogy, stratigraphy and geography in Belgium and even worked on maps of the Congo although he never visited. Lohest was a member of several organizations including the Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, the Geological Society of London and served as a director of the Belgian Geological Commission.

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