Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
Hungarian geologist and paleontologist
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Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of paleobiology, and first described the theory of insular dwarfism. Wikipedia
Born: May 3, 1877, Deva, Romania
Died: April 25, 1933 (age 55 years), Vienna, Austria
Parents: Elek Nopcsa
Education: University of Vienna (1897–1903) and Theresianum
Nationality: Albanian and Hungarian
Research interests: Vertebrate Paleontology, Functional Morphology, Geology, and more