The Constantin Kluge - Pierre Leroy collection, 1976-1993.

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The Constantin Kluge - Pierre Leroy collection, 1976-1993.

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The Constantin Kluge-Pierre Leroy collection consists primarily of 34 autograph signed letters from Fr. Leroy to his friend, the artist Constantin Kluge. The correspondence is accompanied by a typed transcription of the letters provided by Mme. Solange Soulié, a close friend of Pierre Leroy. Supplementing the Leroy-Kluge correspondence is a photocopy of a 15 page letter from Kluge to Nicholas Scheetz, Georgetown University Library Manuscripts Librarian, in which Kluge reminisces about Teilhard de Chardin and his circle. Completing the collection are a photocopy of an autograph inscription by Claude Rivière to Marie and Constantin Kluge; issue 10 of the Bulletin of the Association des Amis de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, featuring recollections by Kluge of Teilhard in Beijing during 1943; and a brochure for an exhibition of Kluge's works at the Musée Vivenel in Compiègne, France.

0.25 linear feet (1 box).

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Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library

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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...

Kluge, C. (Constantin), 1912-

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Rivière, Claude.

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