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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher. He investigated the theory of evolution from a perspective influenced by Henri Bergson and Christian mysticism, writing multiple scientific and religious works on the subject. His mainstream scientific achievements include his paleontological research in China, taking part in th…
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culture · French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955) · paleontologist · writer · paleoanthropologist · Catholic priest · geologist · philosopher · anthropologist · botanical collector · Catholic theologian · theologian · also Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, P. Teilhard de Chardin, Chardin
Born 1 May 1881 · Died 10 April 1955 · Q189564
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
China Internet Information Center: Le scientifique Pierre Teilhard de Chardin et ses liens étroits avec la Chine
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2019· 1 entry
Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson praised Teilhard's book The Phenomenon of Man as "scientifically prophetic in many ways", and considers his own work as an updated version of it, commenting that "[m]odern evolu
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2016· 1 entry
globalpulsemagazine.com: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : un monde en gestation
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2014· 2 entries
Le Figaro: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ou la passion de l'infini
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Donald Wayne Viney evaluated Medawar's review and concluded that the case made against Teilhard was "remarkably thin, marred by misrepresentations and elementary philosophical blunders
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2009· 1 entry
Involving a fictional solution to the infamous Piltdown Man hoax
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1981· 1 entry
That her article in America constituted "a total refutation of Gould's interpretation of Teilhard's letters to me in 1953-1954
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1978· 1 entry
George Addair based much of Omega Vector on Teilhard's work
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1973· 1 entry
Drew upon Teilhard's insistence that evolutionary theory provides the core of how man understands his relationship to nature, calling him "one of the great thinkers of our age"
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1972· 1 entry
The Uruguayan priest Juan Luis Segundo, in his five-volume series A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, wrote that Teilhard "noticed the profound analogies existing between the conceptual elements used by the natura
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1962· 1 entry
The Holy Office issued a warning regarding Teilhard's works, alleging ambiguities and doctrinal errors without specifying them
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1961· 1 entry
British immunologist and Nobel laureate Peter Medawar wrote a scornful review of The Phenomenon of Man for the journal Mind: "the greater part of it [
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1955· 6 entries
Died 1955-04-10.
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“One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" — after all the scientific and technological achievements — "we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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“Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. ... Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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“Le Phénomène Humain (1955)”
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“The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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“The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.”
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1953· 1 entry
Expressed his frustration at the Church's failure to embrace the scientific possibilities for optimising human nature, including by the separation of sexuality from reproduction (a notion later developed e
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1951· 1 entry
Career landmark: adviser (1951–1955).
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1950· 1 entry
Teilhard was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences
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1949· 1 entry
When permission to publish Le Groupe Zoologique was refused
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1947· 2 entries
Teilhard was honored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for "Outstanding services to the intellectual and scientific influence of France" and was promoted to the rank of Officer in the Legion of Honor
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Career landmark: Director of Research at CNRS (1947–1951).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1946).
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1941· 1 entry
Teilhard submitted to Rome his most important work, Le Phénomène Humain
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1937· 2 entries
Won Mendel Medal (1937).
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Teilhard wrote Le Phénomène spirituel (The Phenomenon of the Spirit) on board the boat Empress of Japan, where he met Sylvia Brett, Ranee of Sarawak The ship took him to the United States
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1934· 2 entries
Then, the following year, in Guangxi and Guangdong
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That he believed belonged to a three-meter-tall ape, Gigantopithecus, which lived between one hundred thousand and around a million years ago
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1933· 1 entry
Rome ordered him to give up his post in Paris
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1931· 1 entry
And confirmed the presence of stone tools
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1930· 1 entry
“For the observers of the Future, the greatest event will be the sudden appearance of a collective humane conscience and a human work to make.”
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1929· 1 entry
That racial inequality was rooted in biological difference: "Do the yellows—[the Chinese]—have the same human value as the whites
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1928· 1 entry
Joined other geologists and paleontologists to excavate the sedimentary layers in the Western Hills near Zhoukoudian
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1926· 3 entries
And continued in the role for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the China Geological Survey following its founding in 1928
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Teilhard was hired by the Cenozoic Laboratory at the Peking Union Medical College
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Career landmark: President of the Geological Society of France (1926–1926).
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1925· 1 entry
Teilhard was ordered by the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Włodzimierz Ledóchowski, to leave his teaching position in France and to sign a statement withdrawing his controversial statements regarding the doctr
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1923· 2 entries
Was hired to do geological research on expeditions in China by the Jesuit scientist and priest Emile Licent
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Traveled to China with Father Émile Licent, who was in charge of a significant laboratory collaboration between the National Museum of Natural History and Marcellin Boule's laboratory in Tianjin
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1922· 3 entries
Awarded Auguste Viquesnel Prize (1922).
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With the support of the Catholic Church and the French Concession, Licent built a special building for the museum on the land adjacent to the Tsin Ku University, which was founded by the Jesuits in China
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Career landmark: senior lecturer (1922–1925).
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1921).
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Le Roy and Teilhard became friends and met weekly for long discussions
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1920· 1 entry
Became a lecturer in geology at the Catholic University of Paris, and later a professor
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1916· 1 entry
Wrote his first essay: La Vie Cosmique (Cosmic life), where his scientific and philosophical thought was revealed just as his mystical life
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1915· 1 entry
Awarded Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (1915).
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1914· 1 entry
Licent with the sponsorship of the Jesuits founded one of the first museums in China and the first museum of natural science: the Musée Hoangho Paiho
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1913· 1 entry
Teilhard and Breuil did excavations at the prehistoric painted Cave of El Castillo in Spain
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1905· 1 entry
Career landmark: teacher (1905–1908).
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1902· 1 entry
Teilhard completed a licentiate in literature at the University of Caen
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1901· 1 entry
And 1902, due to an anti-clerical movement in the French Republic, the government banned the Jesuits and other religious orders from France
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1899· 1 entry
Entered the Jesuit novitiate in Aix-en-Provence
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-05-01.
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