@article{e484aafd35de4c1bb9ce5ab1a659f0a8,
title = "Franz Baron Nopcsa: A short life of research in dinosaur evolutionary paleobiology and Albanology",
abstract = "The short life of Hungarian paleontologist and Albanologist, Franz Baron Nopcsa (1877–1933) is reviewed with an eye on his discoveries of the dinosaurs of Transylvania and their dwarfed nature, as well as his interest in the people of Albania, especially their social organization, laws, history, and ethnography during the first and second Balkan Wars. He also engaged in espionage in Romania during World War I. In addition to his research on the dwarfed dinosaurs and their insular context, his paleontological work also focused on neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory, the origin of avian flight, and growth and sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs based on osteology and bone microstructure.",
keywords = "Albanology, Franz Baron Nopca, Transylvania, dinosaurs, evolutionary theory",
author = "Weishampel, {David B.}",
note = "Funding Information: It is with great pleasure that I dedicate this paper to Peter Dodson on the occasion of his retirement from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. I was Peter's first graduate student (1978–1981), during which time Peter introduced me to the problems of dinosaur systematics, growth, sexual dimorphism, development, and paleobiology, five subjects of great concern to Franz Baron Nopcsa. I thank Peter for his guiding light in these matters. I am grateful to the following for sharing their knowledge of the scientific achievements of Franz Baron Nopcsa that he gained in museums and the field around his family estate, and the adventurous life he led, particularly in northern Albania. These include Sandra Chapman, A. C. Milner, Laszlo Kordos, Dan Grigorescu, and especially Coralia-Maria Jianu, Zoltan Csiki-Sama, and Robert Elsie. Ursula von Huene and Alexandra Kops-von Huene generously offered information about Franz Baron Nopcsa and Bajazid Elmas Doda, as well as their father, Friedrich von Huene, that comes from when the von Huene family entertained them in T{\"u}bingen. I thank Jack Horner and Hans-Dieter Sues for graciously reviewing the paper. Amy Weishampel kindly proofed the manuscript and checked the citations. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 American Association for Anatomy.",
year = "2023",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1002/ar.25116",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "306",
pages = "1969--1975",
journal = "Anatomical Record",
issn = "1932-8486",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc.",
number = "7",
}