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

^ Shaw, Trevor (2020). A Biographical Bibliography. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. p. 219. ISBN 978-9-610-50444-3. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

[1] Shaw, Trevor (2020). A Biographical Bibliography. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. p. 219. ISBN 978-9-610-50444-3. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[auto-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.

[auto2-4] 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.

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