Z MINIONYCH CZASÓW Wawrzyniec i Henryk Teisseyre’owie

Abstract

Wawrzyniec Teisseyre and Henryk Teisseyre.A b s t r a c t. The Teisseyre family is a very meritorious family in Polish geology. Senior Wawrzyniec Teisseyre(1860–1939), cartographer, tectonicist, petroleum geologist and paleontologist, first determined the course ofthe SW boundary of the East European Platform, subsequently confirmed by magnetic studies of German geophysicist A.J.H. Tornquist. This important continental-scale feature has a character of deep fractures and iscalled today the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone. Wawrzyniec's son, Henryk Teisseyre (1903–1975), was an eminent Carpathian geologist. After World War II, he was the co-founder of the Wrocław centre of Polish geology and the creator of Wroc³aw school of tectonics. Significant roles in the geology were played by Henryk's sons: prematurely died Juliusz (1933–1991) and Andrzej Karol (1938–1991). Henryk's nephew, Roman Teisseyre (born 1929), is a world-class seismologist, researcher in physics of the Earth interior.