Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher and teacher.
The response to his writings by scientists has been mostly critical. ==Life== ===Early years=== Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in the Château of Sarcenat, Orcines, some north-west of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, French Third Republic, on 1 May 1881, as the fourth of eleven children of librarian Emmanuel Teilhard de Chardin (1844–1932) and Berthe-Adèle, née de Dompierre d'Hornoys of Picardy, a great-grandniece of Voltaire.
In 1899, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Aix-en-Provence.
In October 1900, he began his junior studies at the Collégiale Saint-Michel de Laval.
On 25 March 1901, he made his first vows.
In 1902, Teilhard completed a licentiate in literature at the University of Caen. That same year the Emile Combes premiership took over from Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau in pursuit of an anti-clerical agenda.
Theilhard continued his philosophical studies on the island of Jersey until 1905.
Strong in Science subjects, he was despatched to teach physics at the Collège de la Sainte Famille in Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt until 1908.
On 24 August 1911, aged 30, he was ordained priest. ==Academic career== ===Paleontology=== From 1912 to 1914, Teilhard worked in the paleontology laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History, France, studying the mammals of the middle Tertiary period.
On 24 August 1911, aged 30, he was ordained priest. ==Academic career== ===Paleontology=== From 1912 to 1914, Teilhard worked in the paleontology laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History, France, studying the mammals of the middle Tertiary period.
In June 1912 he formed part of the original digging team, with Arthur Smith Woodward and Charles Dawson, at the Piltdown site, after the discovery of the first fragments of the fraudulent "Piltdown Man".
On 24 August 1911, aged 30, he was ordained priest. ==Academic career== ===Paleontology=== From 1912 to 1914, Teilhard worked in the paleontology laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History, France, studying the mammals of the middle Tertiary period.
Marcellin Boule, a specialist in Neanderthal studies, who as early as 1915 had recognized the non-[origins of the Piltdown finds, gradually guided Teilhard towards human paleontology.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, theologian, philosopher and teacher.
With Vladimir Vernadsky he developed the concept of the noosphere. In 1962, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith condemned several of Teilhard's works based on their alleged ambiguities and doctrinal errors.
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