Biology:Mária Mottl
Mária Mottl (22 December 1906 – 21 September 1980) was a Hungarian speleologist and vertebrate paleontologist.[1][2]
Biography
Mária Mottl was born on 22 December 1906 at Budapest. She studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Budapest.[3] After completing her education, she joined Royal Hungarian Geological Institute, Budapest, and subsequently, after two years, she became a field paleontologist in the same institute.[2] According to Fozy, Mottl was one of the “talented researchers” of the Royal Hungarian Geological Institute during that time.[4] At the same time she produced a number of publications on caves and cave bears.[2] Following World War II, she moved to Styria, Austria, where she joined Joanneum Museum in Graz.[2][3] In September 1948 Mottl started “a systematic excavation of the Repolust Cave on behalf of the Joanneum” near Badlgraben.[5][3] Mottl documented all the finds from this 100,000 year-old cave.[2]
Also Mottl, along with Hubert Kessler excavated the Domica Cave, longest cave of the Slovak Karst National Park.[6][7]
She died on 21 September 1980 in Graz.
Notes
The Repolust cave was discovered in 1910 by a miner, which has been named after him.[5] The site of Repolust cave was earlier planned for the mining of guano. However “mining never took place.” [2]
References
- ↑ Shaw, Trevor (2020). A Biographical Bibliography. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. p. 219. ISBN 978-9-610-50444-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=x_wAEAAAQBAJ. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Ogilvie, Marilyn (16 December 2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Oxon: Routledge. p. 921. ISBN 978-1-135-96343-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=rUCUAgAAQBAJ. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Turner, Susan (2021). "Becoming a Vertebrate Palaeontologist". International Journal of Paleobiology & Paleontology 4 (1): 1-6. https://medwinpublishers.com/IJPBP/becoming-a-vertebrate-palaeontologist.pdf. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ↑ Fozy, István (18 December 2013). Fossils of the Carpathian Region. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-253-00987-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=DQIjAQAAQBAJ. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Brandl, Michael (2011). "Repolust Cave (Austria) revisited: Provenance studies of the chert finds". Quartär 58 (NA): 51-65. doi:10.7485/QU58_03. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/qu/article/view/78694. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ↑ Gunn, John (2 August 2004). Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science. Oxon: Routledge. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-135-45508-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=JzJKO0jqXT0C. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ↑ Bednarik, Robert G. (24 February 2015). The First Mariners. Sharjah: Bentham Science Publishers. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-681-08019-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=MvgADgAAQBAJ. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
 |
