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.
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The Nopcsa family home
Nopcsa Ferenc in Shqiptar warrior costume with Yataghan & Tançica, cca 1913
Historical Polacanthus foxii skeletal restoration by Franz Nopcsa
Vertebra of Nopcsaspondylus, a sauropod dinosaur named after the baron in 2007. Other extinct animals named after him include Elopteryx nopcsai, Tethysaurus nopcsai, Hyposaurus nopcsai, and Mesophis nopcsaiIn their orbit 1
Writers born in the 1870s 6
About this person
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.
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1877 to 1933 · aged 55
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