Teilhard, de Chardin Pier

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin was born in Auvergne, France, in 1881. An ordained member of the Society of Jesus, Pierre Teilhard held positions as professor of geology at the Catholic Institute in Paris, director of the National Geologic Survey of China and director of the National Research Center of France. He lived in China for many years where he played a major role in the discovery of Pekin man. In 1951 he moved to New York where under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation he was enabled to continue his work until his death in 1955. " Le PhEnomEne Humain, " issued in France in December o...