Curt Teichert

Curt Teichert (1905 to 1996) was a German-American palaeontologist and geologist noted for his work on Paleozoic stratigraphy, cephalopods, ancient and modern reefs and correlation, the matching of strata of the same age in different places. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, he studied geology at Munich, Freiburg and Königsberg and took his doctorate at Albertus University in 1928. Because his wife had Jewish ancestry, the couple left for Copenhagen in 1933, and in 1937 a Carnegie Foundation grant let them settle in Australia, where he was research lecturer at the University of Western Australia in Perth until 1945, then worked for the Mines Department of Victoria and taught at the University of Melbourne. From 1952 he worked in the United States, joined the US Geological Survey in 1954, studied the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Salt Range while based in Quetta, Pakistan, from 1961, and from 1964 was Regents' Professor at the University of Kansas. He co-edited the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology from 1964 to 1979 and was president of the Paleontological Society in 1971 and 1972 and of the International Paleontological Association from 1976 to 1980.