Denis Buzy (born at Bénéjacq 22 March 1883; died at Bethlehem 21 May 1965) was a French archaeologist who excavated the Tahunian culture at

Wadi Tahuna Wadi Tahuna is an archaeological site of the Tahunian culture that was excavated in 1928 by Denis Buzy, several kilometers south to Bethlehem in Palestine (region), Palestine.Braidwood, L., Notes on the Flint Implements of Tabbat Al-Hammām, Insti ...

near

Bethlehem Bethlehem (; ar, بيت لحم ; he, בֵּית לֶחֶם '' '') is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000,Amara, 1999p. 18.Brynen, 2000p. 202. and it is the capital o ...

in 1928. Buzy was a Betharram Father and in 1933 published the ''Life of St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of our Lord''.

Biography

Denis Buzy was born at Bénéjacq, in the Basses-Pyrénées on March 22, 1883; after studying philosophy and theology at the seminary of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart in Betharram in Bethlehem, he was ordained as a priest on August 24, 1906. He continued his studies in Rome where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy and theology and in 1911 in Holy Scripture. His career continued in Bethlehem from 1908 to 1935, where he began archaeological and biblical work. He conducted excavations of the Tahuna (Stone Age) culture at Wadi Tahuna near Bethlehem in 1928.Braidwood, L., Notes on the Flint Implements of Tabbat Al-Hammām, Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Syria, 1940 He was elected Superior General in 1935 of the Congregation of the Betharram Fathers, a position he held until 1958. He put his sons through

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. He had the merit of instituting national seminars in Argentina, England and Italy where new vocations were born in a growing congregation. He organized the congregation in new provinces with missionary and educational activities in Thailand and French North Africa (there was for example a college in Casablanca). He then retired to Bethlehem where he continued his Bible and exegetical studies. At the same time, he was the spiritual director of the Carmel of Bethlehem. T.R.P. Buzy died in 1965.

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