Gjuro Pilar

Gjuro Pilar

Gjuro Pilar (also Đuro, Djuro, Georg ) (born April 22, 1846 in Slavonski Brod , † May 19, 1893 in Zagreb ) was an Austro-Hungarian geologist and mineralogist .

Life

Pilar had a strong family relationship with Bosnia through his mother (Therese Čulić from Derventa ).

His training was very extensive. He received his first training in Esseg / Osijek and Agram. For the purpose of further studies he attended the University of Brussels (from 1865, natural sciences, Dr. phil. And habilitation ), the Sorbonne (from 1869) and the École de Chimie (1869, chemistry) in Paris. At the end of 1870 he began his work at the National Museum in Agram, where he became curator of the mineralogical-geological department.

Pilar founded an ichthyological ( Young Tertiary and Cretaceous ) and geological collection of Croatia in the National Museum.

On behalf of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, he researched the geological conditions in Croatia in the 19th century. a. in Slavonia ( Požegan basin and mountains). His work was characterized by professional diversity. There are subjects of general geology, stratigraphy , paleontology , petrography , caveology , seismology and meteorology .

Mojsisovics also made use of his involvement in the geological survey of Bosnia-Hercegovina in 1879 , who also gave their benevolent support to the “k. Croatian Provincial Government ”took place.

From 1875 he was professor of mineralogy and geology at the newly founded Croatian Franz Joseph University in Agram (later rector) and u. a. Member of the South Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts in Agram and active in other scientific societies in Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria.

He gave a comprehensive geological description of Bosnia on the basis of his own exploratory trips around 1879 in his report to the South Slavic Academy of Sciences in 1882. In addition to brief tectonic and hydrological statements, he explains the geological systems in the Bosnian part of the country. In the main part, Gjuro Pilar describes the geological conditions of 15 sub-areas. A few explanations on mineralogical aspects conclude.

His results were already used by Edmund von Mojsisovics to describe western Bosnia, who was accompanied by the young Pilar on trips through the country.

Publications (selection)

• A contribution to the question about the cause of the ice ages . Suppan, Agram 1876
• Basics of abyssodynamics: at the same time a contribution to the earthquake question that was newly stimulated by the Agramer earthquake of November 9, 1880 . Verl. D. University Bookstore, Agram 1881
• Geološka opažanja u zapadnoj Bosni . Istraživanja god. 1879. Rad Yugoslav. Akad. 16. knj .; 1882
• Jugoslavenska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti U Zagrebu. 4. Flora fossilis Susedana (Susedska fosilna flora-flore fossile de Sused): descriptio plantarum fossilium quae in lapicidinis ad Nedelja, Sused, Dolje etc. in vicinitate civitatis Zagrabiensis hucusque repertae sunt . Hartman, Zagreb, 1883

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Stjepan Ćorić: The geological exploration of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the fundamental contribution of Austrian geologists . In: Treatises of the GBA . Volume 56, No. 1, Vienna 1999, p. 139
2. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrich Katzer : Geology of Bosnia and Hercegovina . Volume 1, part 1, Sarajevo 1924, p. 39
3. ↑ ^{a b} The Austro-Hungarian monarchy in words and pictures . Volume XXIV, Croatia and Slavonia. Vienna 1902, pp. 187-188, 514, 522
4. ↑ Edmund von Mojsisovics , Emil Tietze and Alexander Bittner : Basics of the geology of Bosnia-Hercegovina . Vienna 1880, pp. VI – VIII
5. ↑ Gjuro Pilar: A contribution to the question about the cause of the ice ages . Agram 1876

literature

• S. Batušić:  Pilar Djuro. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 72 f. (Direct links on p. 72 , p. 73 ).