# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-nopcsa-von-felso-szilvas
# Generated: 2026-08-16T13:59:19.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-nopcsa-von-felso-szilvas"
name: "Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás"
slug: "franz-nopcsa-von-felso-szilvas"
description: "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. He was also a specialist on Albanian studies and completed the first geological map of northern Albania."
tagline: "Hungarian noble and academic (1877-1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baron_Franz_Nopcsa_in_Albanian_uniform.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1877-05-03"
deathDate: "1933-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.171945701357466
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump