The life of German expat palaeontologist Curt Teichert in Copenhagen in the late 1930es

A manuscript entitled ‘DENMARK 1933–1937’ written by the eminent German palaeontologist Curt Teichert (Figs 1–4) has recently come to our attention. It was handed over to us by professor Tove Birkelund, but it was only one of several manuscripts covering Teichert’s memoirs as a palaeontologist from 1905–1967. A version of the manuscript was published by the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York (Mikkelsen et al. 2014) as Chapter 7 in a comprehensive post-humous biography of Teichert from 1968–1996. However, it differs from the present version in deletion or additions of quite a number of paragraphs. We have kept Teichert’s original version here.