Maurice Paul Krafft was a French volcanologist and filmmaker who, together with his wife Katia Krafft, died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen in Japan on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well known as pioneers in filming, photographing and recording volcanoes, often working within feet of active lava flows, and their work has since been the subject of documentary films including Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno and The Fire Within, and Fire of Love, which drew on their own archived footage.
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Death PlaceShimabara, Nagasaki, Japan 1 Connections
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1. Katia and Maurice Krafft - Wikipedia
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Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft (née Conrad; 17 April 1942 - 3 June 1991) and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft (25 March 1946 - 3 June 1991) were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991.
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25 March 1946
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On 5 June 1991, the bodies of the Kraffts and Glicken were recovered. Katia and Maurice were found near their rental car, lying side by side under a layer of pyroclastic ash; Glicken's body was located nearby.
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3 June 1991
Early life and education, Maurice
in Mulhouse, France
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Kitakamikobamachi (Near Mount Unzen), Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan
Lead sentence, nationality
French volcanologists
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