- Gjuro Pilar
Gjuro Pilar (also Đuro Pilar) (
22 April 1846 inSlavonski Brod ;19 May 1893 inZagreb ) was an Austro-Hungarian Geologist and Mineralogist.Biography
Pilar had, with his mother (Therese Čulić of Derventa), a strong family relationship to Bosnia.
His training was very extensive. The first training he received was at
Esseg , Zagreb, and Osijek. Later, he studied at theUniversity of Brussels (from 1865, Natural Sciences), theSorbonne (from 1869), and theÉcole de Chimie (1869, chemistry) in Paris. By the end of the year 1870, he began his work at the National Museum in Zagreb, the curator of geological-mineralogical department.Ćorić, Stjepan: Die geologische Erforschung von Bosnien und der Herzegowina und der grundlegende Beitrag der österreichischen Geologen; in: Abh. d. GBA, Bd 56/1 Wien 1999, S. 139] Katzer, Dr. Friedrich: Geologie Bosniens und der Hercegovina, 1.Bd.1.Teil, Sarajevo 1924, S.39]Prof. Pilar established a dinosaur collection (Jurassic and Cretaceous) and eological collections at the National Museum of Croatia.Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild, Bd. XXIV, Croatia and Slavonia, Vienna 1902, S. 187-188, 514, 522]
He reasearched on behalf of the
Geologische Bundesanstalt . His works were marked by diversity of subsects. There are premises of the general geology, stratigraphy and paleontology, petrology, speleology, seismology, and meteorology.From 1875, he was a professor of geology and mineralogy at the newly formed Croatian
Franz-Joseph University in Agram (later Rector), plus several others. Pilar was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, and other scientific societies of Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria. [Pilar, Dr. G.: Ein Beitrag zur Frage über die Ursache der Eiszeiten, Agram 1876]Pilar was a passionate lover of chess. He organised the first chess club in Croatia, the Zagrebacki Sahovski Klub, on 11 March 11, 1886. [ [http://www.crochess.com/povijest/history.htm A short history of Croatian Chess] ]
Publications
*Pilar, G.: Ein Beitrag zur Frage über die Ursache der Eiszeiten (1876)
*Pilar, G.: Grundzüge der Abyssodynamik (1881)
*Pilar, G.: Geološka opažanja u zapadnoj Bosni. Istraživanja god. 1879. Rad jugoslav. Akad. 16. knj.; (1882)
*Pilar, G.: Flora fossilis Susedana (1883)References
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