The Pierre Leroy papers, 1947-1984 (bulk 1948-1955).

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The Pierre Leroy papers, 1947-1984 (bulk 1948-1955).

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The Leroy papers consist largely of correspondence received by Pierre Leroy, S.J., from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and other friends and associates. All but four of the letters from Teilhard were included in 'Lettres familière de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, mon ami', compiled by Fr. Leroy and published by Centurion, Paris, in 1976. The letters were subsequently translated into English by Mary Lukas and published in 1980 by Paulist Press, New York, under the title 'Letters from my friend ... 1948-1955'. Correspondents other than Teilhard include George Barbour, Etienne Borne, Henri Breuil, Paul Fejos, Luc and Jehane Gambin, Jean Guitton, Malvina Hoffman, Marguerite Jacob, Paul-André Lesort, Henri de Lubac, Mary Lukas, Henri de Monfried, Jeanne Mortier, Isabelle, comtesse de Paris, Claude Rivière, Lucile Swan, Joseph Teilhard de Chardin, Marguerite Teilhard-Chambon, and Helmut and Rhoda De Terra. Also included are material on the Teilhard centennial exhibitions held in France and England, offprints of articles on Teilhard, a play about him, and commemorative stamps, as well as mimeograph copies, reprints, and typed manuscripts of articles by Teilhard.

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Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library

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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...

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...