The Lukas-Teilhard collection, 1899-1985.

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The Lukas-Teilhard collection, 1899-1985.

The Lukas-Teilhard collection consists of the research files amassed by Mary and Ellen Lukas in the writing of their book, Teilhard (1977). These files consist of original letters, photographs, and photoreproductions of unpublished letters to and from Teilhard, his family, friends, and associates, along with some related printed materials. The correspondents include George Barbour, Ida Treat Bergeret, Baron Alberto-Carlo Blanc, Henri Bouillard, S.J., Henri Breuil, Henri Dopp, S.J., Paul Fejos, Christophe Gaudefroy, Pierre Lamare, Joseph Lecler, S.J., Pierre Leroy, S.J., Henri de Lubac, Jeanne Mortier, René d'Ouince, S.J., and Lucille Swan. The photographs include images of China in the first half of the 20th century and of Teilhard, his family and friends

1.5 linear feet (3 boxes).

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Lukas, Ellen, 1933-....

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Lukas, Mary, 1928-....

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Mary Lukas was born in 1928, the daughter of Alex J. and Margaret (McGuire) Lukas. She received the B.A. degree from the College of New Rochelle and subsequently did graduate work at the Catholic University of America and Rutgers University. Ms. Lukas has worked as entertainment editor for Look magazine. theater critic for the magazine Show, and researcher and reporter for Time magazine. With her sister Ellen she was awarded the 1977 Religious Media Today Prize for their biography o...

Mortier, Jeanne

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Teilhard family.

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Teilhard de Chardin, Joseph, b. 1889

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Leroy, Pierre, 1900-

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Pierre Leroy, biologist and Jesuit, was born in La Madeline in northern France on Aug. 24, 1900. He completed his education at the Jesuit College in Lille and the Faculté des Sciences in Nancy, later working at the Museum of Natural History in Tianjin, China in the 1930's. From 1940 to 1946 he served as director of the Geobiological Institute in Beijing, where one of his colleagues was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. S.J. After returning to Europe, Fr. Leroy was a researcher at the Col...

Blanc, Alberto Carlo

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Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and philosopher, was born May 1, 1881, at Sarcenat, in the Dept. of Puy de Dôin, France, and educated at the College of Mongréin Villefranche-sur-Saô. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1899 at Aix-en-Provence and was ordained a priest in 1911. From 1912-1914 he studied paleontology under Marcellin Boule in Paris. After a period of teaching in Cairo, service in World War I as a stretcher-bearer, and further teaching at the Institut catho...