Félix-Marie Abel

Félix-Marie Abel (29 December 1878 – 24 March 1953)[1] was a French archaeologist, a geographer, and a professor at the École Biblique in Jerusalem.

[6] In 1905 he became a professor at the École Biblique teaching Church History, Greek, topography, archaeology, and Coptic; he served there until his death in 1953.

[6] Preceded by a volume on Palestine in the Guide Bleu series of travel guides,[6][8] his Géographie de la Palestine (Paris, 1933–1938) treats the political, historical and physical geography from the most remote times until the Byzantine period.

[13] With Louis-Hugues Vincent he published a number of works, the most famous of which are the three volumes of topographic-archaeological-historical studies on the city of Jerusalem.

[14] With Savignac he argued that archeological remains beneath the St. Stephen's Basilica, Jerusalem, which houses the École Biblique, were those of the basilica built by Empress Eudocia in the 5th century CE, but not that this was also the site of the stoning of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr.