BIOLOGIST

Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás

1877 - 1933

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás has received more than 206,369 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás is the 451st most popular biologist (up from 458th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Romania (up from 241st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 451 out of 1,097. Before him are Luther Burbank, Heinrich Schrader, Friedrich Boie, Alfred Grandidier, Heinrich Kuhl, and Georg August Goldfuss. After him are Francisco J. Ayala, Gabriel Bibron, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Eugene Odum, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 94. Before him are Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Charilaos Vasilakos, Isidora Sekulić, Viktor Dyk, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, and Georg Kolbe. After him are Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Wehib Pasha, Hélène Dutrieu, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Otto Herschmann, and William Hope Hodgson. Among people deceased in 1933, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 64. Before him are Toktogul Satylganov, Andrey Lyapchev, Eduard Vilde, Ernst Hartert, Prince Alfons of Bavaria, and Ion G. Duca. After him are Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Zacharia Paliashvili, Robert Kajanus, Mykola Khvylovy, Robert T. A. Innes, and John Henry Mackay.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 234 out of 844. Before him are Ion G. Duca (1879), Matei Basarab (1580), Adolf Albin (1848), Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia (1859), Theodor Aman (1831), and Titu Maiorescu (1840). After him are Răzvan Lucescu (1969), Kálmán Tisza (1830), Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938), István Avar (1905), Sebastian Stan (1982), and Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

Among biologists born in Romania, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 3. Before him are Ana Aslan (1897), and Johann Hedwig (1730). After him are Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), Emil Racoviță (1868), and Grigore Antipa (1867).

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