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 firs
Baron Nopcsa in Albanian uniform, 1915
The Nopcsa family home
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 nopcsai
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Bajazid Elmaz Doda was an Albanian ethnographic writer and photographer. He is the author of the book Albanisches Bauerleben im oberen Rekatal bei Dibra, written in Vienna in 1914, as well as of numer
Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
…university; his doctorate focused on geologically mapping the area surrounding the family estate. On 20 November 1906 Nopcsa met the then eighteen-year-old Bajazid Doda in Bucharest and hired him as his secretary. Nopcsa later recounted this meeting in his memoir: [H]e has been the only person who has truly loved me…
Doda in 1931
An Albanian salep merchant in Skopje, 1907
Albanian halva merchants in Skopje, 1907
Two Upper Reka men: A man from Reč on the left and a man from Strezimir on the right.