Martin Glaessner
| Martin Fritz Glaessner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 25, 1906 Aussig, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | November 23, 1989 (aged 82) Melbourne, Australia |
| Fields | Geology, paleontology |
| Institutions |
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (1923–?) Natural History Museum, London (1930–1931) University of Moscow (1936) University of Adelaide, Australia (1950–1989) South Australian Museum (1953–1989) |
| Alma mater |
University of Vienna (1925–1931) University of Melbourne (1946) |
| Notable awards |
Lyell Medal (1974) Walcott Medal (1982) Suess Medal Order of Australia (AM) |
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 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.
Glaessner was born in Aussig in the former the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Ústí nad Labem in the Czech 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 Ph.D. in geology and paleontology in 1931. 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.
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