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Gabriel Camps is a French-Algerian actor and director who has been active in the entertainment industry since the 1950s. He is best known for his roles in films such as The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and The Return of Martin Guerre (1982). Camps was born in Misserghin, French Algeria, on 20 May 1927. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, and began his career in the theatre in the 1950s. He made his film debut in 1962 in the film La Ville des Pirates. Camps has appeared in over 50 films and television series, including The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), and The Name of the Rose (1986). He has also directed several films, including The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) and The Name of the Rose (1986). Camps has been married twice, first to actress Marie-Christine Barrault, and then to actress and director Dominique Blanc. He has two children, actress and director Julie Camps and actor and director Pierre Camps. As of 2021, Gabriel Camps's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

Popular As 20 May 1927
Occupation archaeologist and social anthropologist
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 20 May, 1927
Birthday 20 May
Birthplace Misserghin, French Algeria
Date of death (2002-09-07) Aix-en-Provence
Died Place Aix-en-Provence
Nationality Algeria

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2002

Camps died in 2002 in Aix-en-Provence; on his death, the Algerian Minister of Culture expressed his condolences to the University.

1984

Gabriel Camps undertook research and published on the prehistoric and pre-Roman epochs of North Africa, but also on the Berber kingdoms, the Libyan script and the Punic people. Most of this work focussed on Berber history, and in 1984 he was the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie berbère, launched under the aegis of UNESCO. The largest part of Camps's research was done on Algeria, although he worked also on Corsica.

1969

In 1969, he moved to Aix-en-Provence, where he worked as professor at the University of Provence. There he founded the Laboratoire d'anthropologie et de préhistoire de la Méditerranée occidentale (LAPMO), frequented by numerous students, mostly from Maghreb countries.

1961

Gabriel Camps was born in Misserghin, French Algeria. He attended secondary school in Oran, and studied later in Algiers. In 1961, he graduated from Algiers University with a PhD thesis about the protohistorical monuments and burial rites of Berber people, called Aux origines de la Berbérie. Monuments et rites funéraires protohistoriques, as well as with a second thesis on the Numidian king Masinissa.

1959

In 1959, Gabriel Camps entered the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). After the independence of Algeria, he worked from 1962 to 1969 as director of the Centre de recherches anthropologiques, préhistoriques et ethnologiques (CRAPE) and of the National Ethnographic and Prehistoric Museum of Bardo at Algiers. He also directed the Institut de recherches sahariennes and the scientific journal Libyca.

1928

His wife, Henriette Camps-Fabrer (1928-2015) was a French cultural anthropologist and wrote several books about the jewellery of the Berbers in Algeria and the Maghreb between the 1970s and 1990.

1927

Gabriel Camps (May 20, 1927 – September 7, 2002) was a French archaeologist and social anthropologist, the founder of the Encyclopédie berbère and is considered a prestigious scholar on the history of the Berber people.