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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 185,699 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás is the 459th most popular biologist (up from 470th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Romania (up from 618th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 459 out of 841. Before him are Esther Lederberg, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Edouard Van Beneden, Sabiha Kasimati, and Carl Borivoj Presl. After him are Otto von Münchhausen, Gregory Winter, Jacob Georg Agardh, W. D. Hamilton, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 103. Before him are Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Elin Pelin, William Hope Hodgson, Luigi Maglione, and Lewis Terman. After him are Georg Kolbe, Giuseppe Pizzardo, Buddy Bolden, Ned Maddrell, Noël Bas, and Alphonse de Châteaubriant. Among people deceased in 1933, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 72. Before him are James J. Corbett, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Andrey Lyapchev, Eduard Vilde, Ion G. Duca, and Apollinary Vasnetsov. After him are Gustaf Cederström, John Henry Mackay, Jimmie Rodgers, Georges Leygues, Julius Klengel, and Gyula Krúdy.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás ranks 241 out of 665. Before him are Ludovic Orban (1963), Nichita Stănescu (1933), Patriarch Daniel of Romania (1951), John Houseman (1902), Ion G. Duca (1879), and George Coșbuc (1866). After him are Sándor Végh (1912), Viorica Dăncilă (1963), Sándor Veress (1907), Gheorghe Gruia (1940), Theodor Aman (1831), and András Kovács (1925).

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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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