Stefan Richarz
Geologist, Academic
1874 –
Who is Stefan Richarz?
Stefan Richarz was a German priest, missionary and geologist. Richarz was born in Richrath near Cologne, Germany in 1874. He joined the Divine Word Missionaries in 1893 at Steyl, Netherlands. He studied theology in the school of the order Sankt Gabriel in Maria Enzersdorf near Mödling and received his ordination to the priesthood in 1901. Richarz studied geology, palentology, petrology and chemistry at the University of Vienna and later mineralogy, philosophy and geology. University of Munich. He received his phD for work with Ernst Weinschenk and Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach in 1919 from the University of Munich on basalts from a quarry near Groschlattengrün. In the following years he thought geology and astronomy at the school of the order Sankt Gabriel. In 1921 Richarz changed to the school of the Divine Word Missionaries in Techny, Illinois where he lectured on geology, chemistry mathematics and astronomy. In 1933 Richarz became dean of the science department of the Catholic University of Peking. In his first year he went on a geological field trip to Mengyin County, South Shantung, China where he died 13. July, 1934.
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