Henry de Dorlodot

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Henry de Dorlodot (born August 15, 1855 in Marchienne-au-Pont , † January 4, 1929 in Leuven ) was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (canon), paleontologist and geologist.

De Dorlodot received his doctorate in theology in 1885 and then taught at the Namur Seminary . In addition, he dealt with natural history. From 1890 he worked at the Philosophical Faculty of the Catholic University of Leuven, but had to leave the faculty because of a difference of opinion with the Dean Désiré-Joseph Mercier . In 1894 he became professor of geology and paleontology at the same university , where he worked with the geologist Charles Louis de la Vallée-Poussin , the chemist Louis Henry and the biologist Jean-Baptiste Carnoy .

He defended (despite pressure from Rome) the compatibility of Darwin's theory of evolution with Christian teaching and had contacts with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin . As a scientist, he dealt with paleontology and stratigraphy of the Paleozoic Era in Belgium, especially the Ardennes.

Henry de Dorlodot had been a member of the Swiss Geological Society since 1894 and became a member of the Paleontological Society in 1912, the year it was founded .

Fonts

  • Le Darwinisme au point de vue de l'orthodoxie chrétienne, Volume 1, Brussels, Paris: Vromant 1921
    • Volume 2 was only published in 2009: Origine de l'homme: le darwinisme au point de vue de l'orthodoxie catholique, Brussels, Ed. Mardaga 2009 (with biography)

literature

  • R. de Bont: Rome and theistic evolutionism: The hidden strategies behind the 'Dorlodot Affair', 1920–1926, Annals of science 62, 2005, pp. 457–478.
  • R. de Bont: Hoofdstuk 9: Ongepubliceerde written, in: Darwins kleinkinderen - De evolutieleer in België 1865-1945, Nijmegen: Vantilt 2008
  • MF Kaisin, obituary in Revue des questions scientifiques, Series 4, Volume 15, No. 3, 1929, 341–372
  • Ch.Barrois, Obituary in Revue des questions scientifiques, Series 4, Volume 28, No. 1, 1935
  • J. Thoreau, entry in Biographie nationale, Brussels 1966

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Dorlodot, Henry de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Marchienne-au-Pont
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1929
Place of death Lions