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Professor Gustav von Koenigswald was born in 1902 into a world that increasing with different evolutionary theories. He died eighty years later in 1982 as one of south Asia's most famous Paleo-Anthropologists. He was not only a paleontologist but a geologist as well. Koenigswald was a Berlin-born professor, who decided to buy a set of fossil teeth from a Chinese druggist in a Hong Kong drugstore. [http://www.nycep.org/ed/download/pdf/2000ai%20Gigantopithecus.pdf] Chinese druggists would use these teeth and bones for their medicines and such; but these teeth and bones were later discovered as fossils. [http://www.wynja.com/arch/gigantopithecus.html] This druggist had told Koenigswald that the teeth were dragon's teeth, and could be used for medical purposes. [http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/bigape.htm] He discovered all of his most noteworthy finds from 1931-1941. [http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/journals/0031-0220/paper/57/171] Koenigswald spent the majority of his work doing fieldwork and such in [[Java]]. [http://archaeology.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_koenigswaldghrv.htm]