Dionýs Štúr

1827–1893 (age 66)

Biography

Dionysus Rudolphus Josephus (Dionýz Štúr) (2 April 1827 – 9 October 1893) was a Slovak geologist and paleontologist who worked as the director of the Reich Geological Institute in Vienna. He dealt with geological mapping and phytopaleontology of Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. Štúr's research played a decisive role in the fundamental systematic geological exploration of the Alps, especially the Tauern.