Josef Augusta (paleontologist)

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Josef Augusta (born March 17, 1903 in Boskowitz , † February 4, 1968 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak paleontologist .

Life

Augusta, the son of a tax official, studied science at Masaryk University in Brno from 1921 to 1925 after attending grammar school in Boskovice . During his studies and afterwards he worked as an assistant at the geological institute there until 1931. Since 1932 he taught at the school in Oels , but one year later he switched to Charles University in Prague. In 1939 he was appointed professor, and after the university closed during the Second World War, he worked at the state geological institute. After the end of the war he returned to the university, where he taught until 1968 and held the position of dean of the geological-geographical faculty from 1957 to 1959.

Zdeněk V. Spinar is one of his students .

Research areas

Augusta was mainly concerned with researching the flora and fauna of the Permian period . He became famous for his popular scientific work in the field of paleontology , stratigraphy and geology .

Works

Augusta provided templates for the prehistoric landscape paintings and dinosaurs for the Czech painter Zdeněk Burian , some of which he sketched himself. They created some paleontological reconstructions that were also imposed in book form abroad. In addition, he wrote over 120 scientific papers and was involved in director Karel Zeman's film Journey into Primeval Times ( Cesta do pravěku ) as a scientific advisor.

German-language publications

  • Animals of prehistoric times, 1970
  • Petrified World, 1970
  • At the bonfires of the Paleolithic, 1969
  • Colossi of primeval continents and seas, 1966
  • Great Discoveries, 1965
  • Blown Life, 1964
  • Dinosaurs of the primordial seas, 1964
  • Primeval people, 1960
  • People of Prehistory, 1961 (Bertelsmann Lesering edition of "Menschen der Urzeit")
  • The Book of the Mammoths, 1962
  • Among the original hunters, 1961
  • Pterosaurs and primeval birds, 1961
  • The Stegocephalen from the Lower Permian of the Boskovicer Burche in Moravia, 1936

Foreign language publications

  • A Book Of Mammoths, 1963
  • Prehistoric Animals, 1967
  • Prehistoric Sea Monsters, 1964
  • The Age Of Monsters, 1966

Publications in the Czech language

  • Divy prasvěta, 1942
  • Draci a obři, 1947
  • Hlubinami pravěku / Z hlubin pravěku, 1956
  • Karpatský jelen a jeho rod, 1942
  • Lovci jeskynních medvědů, 1947
  • Naše ZOO, 1955
  • Opolidé a předlidé, 1961
  • Pravěké ptactvo (Prehistoric Reptiles And Birds), 1949
  • U pravěkých lovců, 1971
  • Úvod do všeobecné paleontologie, 1936
  • Z pradějin člověka / Z pradějin lidstva / Z pradějin tvorstva, 1954
  • Z vývojových a kulturních pradějin člověka, 1957
  • Zavátý život, 1944
  • Zrození Venuše, 1960
  • Ztracený svět, 1948

Filmography

  • Cesta do pravěku (1955) as a scientific advisor

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