Norbert Jokl
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Norbert Jokl was an Austrian Albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of Albanology.
Norbert Jokl
2012 Stamp of Albania featuring Jokl
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
Norbert Jokl
…and in 1937 a Hofrat. He wrote numerous works on Albanology and became a renowned specialist. In April 1933, the paleontologist and Albanologist Franz Nopcsa (Ferenc Nopcsa) shot his secretary and himself, leaving his Albanological papers to Jokl. After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Jokl's manuscripts…
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