The 3rd Most Famous Person Buried in Hyde Park, New York.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J . This article is about the 3rd most famous person buried in Hyde Park, NY. That’s after you get past Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt-of course. French philosopher, author of almost 20 books and renowned paleontologist, he is buried on the ground of the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A.) in Hyde Park. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit Priest in the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest in 1911, and served as a stretcher-bearer in the trenches with the French Army from 1914 to 1918. After receiving his PhD in Geology, he was assigned to do work in the then infant field of paleontology, in China. PHILOSOPHY Teilhard tried to find common ground between science and religion. In his major work, The Divine Milieu he focuses on the notion of grace. It is written for those who listen primarily to the voices of the Earth: its purpose is to provide a link to traditional Christianity in order to demonstrate that the fears pr...