Martin Glaessner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Martin Glaessner

geologist and paleontologist

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1906

Place of Birth: Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1989

Profession: geologist, university teacher, paleontologist, carcinologist

Nationality: Austria, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Martin Fritz Glaessner AM (25 December 1906 – 23 November 1989) was a geologist and palaeontologist.
Born and educated in Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for geoscientific institutes in Austria, Russia, Australia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and 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.