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AMADEUS W. GRAEAU was born of German stock at Cedarburgh Wisconsin, on January 9, 1870, his father and paternal grandfather being Lutheran Church pastors. His grandparents had left Germany in the middle of last century to seek refuge in the United States from persecution for refusal to conform to the practices of the reformed Lutheran Church. Perhaps it was this ancestry which bred in Grabau that stubbornness and refusal to accept current geological dogma without challenge which characterized his career. His radical opinions, expressed with a forthrightness not always to the liking of more conservative minds, touched not only American and Asian geology, but also impinged forcibly on the fundamentals of world geology.
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THOMAS, H. Prof. Amadeus W. Grabau. Nature 158, 89–90 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158089a0
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