Mária Mottl

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.[citation needed] 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.[3] 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] In September 1948 Mottl started “a systematic excavation of the Repolust Cave on behalf of the Joanneum” near Badlgraben.[4] 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.[5][6]

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.[4] The site of Repolust cave was earlier planned for the mining of guano. However “mining never took place.” [2]

References

  1. ^ Shaw, Trevor (2020). A Biographical Bibliography. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. p. 219. ISBN 978-9-610-50444-3. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f 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. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  3. ^ Fozy, István (18 December 2013). Fossils of the Carpathian Region. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-253-00987-6. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b Brandl, Michael (2011). "Repolust Cave (Austria) revisited: Provenance studies of the chert finds". Quartär. 58 (NA): 51–65. doi:10.7485/QU58_03. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  5. ^ Gunn, John (2 August 2004). Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science. Oxon: Routledge. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-135-45508-8. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  6. ^ Bednarik, Robert G. (24 February 2015). The First Mariners. Sharjah: Bentham Science Publishers. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-681-08019-2. Retrieved 17 April 2022.