Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (also
Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás,
Baron Nopcsa,
Ferenc Nopcsa,
báró felsőszilvási Nopcsa Ferenc,
Baron Franz Nopcsa, and
Franz Baron Nopcsa; May 3, 1877 – April 25, 1933) 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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