Background
Glaessner was born in Aussig in the former the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Ústí nad Labem in the Czechoslovakian Republic).
(This 1985 book examines the origin of the present diversi...)
This 1985 book examines the origin of the present diversity of marine invertebrate animals. A brief review of the early stages in the history of life discusses the time-scale of the relevant geological periods alongside corresponding events in the evolutionary sequence. These views of the early history of life are then matched against the fossil record and conjectures drawn from the living fauna, enabling the author to attempt an overview of the early diversification of marine animal life. Transitions to the succeeding assemblages of shellbearing fossils in Palaeozoic rocks are discussed and a number of stratigraphic adjustments are suggested for the period in which evolutionary events had their greatest impact on oceans and marine rock strata. The need for an interdisciplinary approach to early evolution is emphasized.
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paleontologist university professor
Glaessner was born in Aussig in the former the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Ústí nad Labem in the Czechoslovakian Republic).
He was a Research Associate at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna from 1923 to 1932, and starting in 1925 attended the University of Vienna, where he received a doctorate in law in 1929, and a Doctor of Philosophy in geology and paleontology in 1931.
Born and educated in Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for oil companies in Russia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Australia. Glaessner also did early work on the classification of the pre-Cambrian lifeforms now known as the Ediacaran biota, which he proposed were the early antecedents of modern lifeforms. He was a Research Associate the Natural History Museum in London from 1930 to 1931.
In 1932 he moved to Moscow and began working in petrogeology at the State Petroleum Research Institute until 1934.
From 1934 to 1937 he worked as a Senior Research Officer at the Institute of Mineral Fuels of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and was also a part-time lecturer at the University of Moscow"s Moscow Petroleum Institute and Palaeontological Institute in 1936. Glaessner married Tina Tupikina in 1936, and moved back to Vienna in December late 1937.
Of Jewish descent on his father"s side, he was arrested on 19 March 1938 but released to work at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now British Petroleum) in London. Later in 1938 he moved to Portuguese Moresby, Territory of New Guinea (then under Australian control), where he worked for joint oil exploration companies until 1950.
He held various positions at the University of Adelaide from 1950 to 1989, including chair of Geology and Palaeontology in 1964.
He was an associate at the South Australian Museum from 1953 to 1989.
(This 1985 book examines the origin of the present diversi...)
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Paläontologische Gesellschaft.