著名的地质学家和地层古生物学家许杰同志原藉安徽广德。中国共产党党员。1925年毕业于北京大学地质系后,回安徽任教,并参加大革命运动。1930年到中央研究院地质研究所,从事地质调查研究工作。1937年抗日战争爆发,许杰随研究所到内地,1943年任云南大学矿冶系教授。1945年加入中国 Well-known geologists and stratigraphic paleontologist Xu Jie, Anhui Guangde. Chinese Communist Party. After graduating from the Department of Geology of Peking University in 1925, he returned to Anhui for teaching and participated in the Great Revolutionary Movement. In 1930 to the Institute of Geology Institute, engaged in geological investigation and research work. In 1937 the outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan, Xu Jie with the Institute to the Mainland, 1943, Professor of Mining and Metallurgy Department of Yunnan University. Joined China in 1945