The death of Curt Teichert

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It is with sadness that we advise the paleontological community of the
death of  Curt  Teichert, educator, researcher and a  distinguished
paleontologist, who  passed  away quietly at  his  home in Arlington,
Virginia on May 10, 1996 just after  his 91st birthday.

Curt Teichert was born in 1905 and educated in Germany. He knew and
worked with many of the great geologists and paleontologists of the 20th
century and  conducted field work all over the world including Europe, U.S.,
Australia, Pakistan, Greenland, Iran, Turkey and most recently  China.

His research endeavors included living and fossil reefs (mapping the Great
Barrier Reef), early geologic  exploration of the Canning Basin in  Western
Australia, Devonian stratigraphy and goniatites, Paleozoic  cephalopods,
and the Permo-Triassic boundary. His first love in paleontology was
fossil and living  nautiloids which never seemed to stop fascinating him.

His long and distinguished career produced voluminous books, research
papers and Treatise volumes and his experience included many years with the
U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, a distinguished  professorship at the
University of Kansas, editor of the Treatise on Invertebrate
Paleontology, and Adjunct Professor at the University of  Rochester. He
served as president of the Paleontological Society and received the
prestigious PS Medal as well as  the RC Moore Medal.

He greatly influenced his many colleagues and as a teacher he trained
and guided several generations of paleontologists. We will miss his
wonderful sense of humor, his contagious passion for global geology and 
mostly his great love and enthusiasm for life.


George Stanley                           Rex Crick
Department of Geology                    Department of Geology
University of Montana                    Box 19049
Missoula, Montana  59812                 University of Texas at Arlington
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