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About Stefan Richarz
- Stefan Richarz (25 November 1874 – 13 July 1934) 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, paleontology, petrology and chemistry at the University of Vienna and later mineralogy, philosophy and geology at the 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 taught geology and astronomy at the school of the order Sankt Gabriel.
- In 1921 he 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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