FRANCE, 1981, Scott B537. JERSEY, 1982, Scott 297
BELGIUM, 2001, Scott 1781h

Teilhard was born in 1881 in Auvergne, France, and he entered the Jesuits in 1911. Forced by the Waldeck-Rousseau law of 1901 to leave France he and other Jesuits continued their studies at Maison St. Louis, pictured on the above stamp, on the Isle of Jersey. He later finished his doctorate in paleontology at the Sorbonne and lectured at the Institut Catholique in Paris. In 1926 his attempts to unite science and theology in a cosmic evolutionary vision were rebuffed by superiors, and his work for the next 20 years were centered on geology and paleontology in China. This was a disciplinary and geographical exile, though Teilhard managed to roam the world from China and continued his philosophical and theological writings privately. When he died on Easter Sunday in 1955 in the United States, his manuscripts survived him, were published posthumously, and found a warmer welcome among philosophers, theologians, and scientists of the next generation. More

BELGIUM 2001, A Tour of the 20th Century in 80 Stamps: Series 3. Technology, Science and Social Science
Teilhard de Chardin's seems to be the central focus of the sheet, Scott 1781

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