!!!Glaessner, Martin Fritz

b. Aussig (Ústi nad Labem, Czech Republic), Dec. 25, 1906, 
d. Nov. 22, 1989, Adelaide (Australia), paleontologist, 
micropaleontologist and geologist. 1932-37 petroleum geologist in the 
USSR, 1938-50 in New Guinea; 1950-71 taught at the University of 
Adelaide. The first scientist to describe the oldest known 
pre-Cambrian body fossils in Australia.

!Works
The Principles of Micropaleontology, 1944; The Dawn of Animal 
Life, 1984.

!Literature
H. Kuepper, In memoriam M. F. G., in: Annalen des 
Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, 1991.



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