Ferdinand Stoliczka

Ferdinand Stoliczka is a geologist, a paleontologist and a British zoologist of Czech origin , born the May 28th 1838 in Bilany close to Kroměříž (in Moravie) and dead the June 9th 1874 with Shayok River (in the province of the Ladakh).

He studies the Géologie and paleontology with Prague and the university of Vienna and follows the courses of the professors Eduard Sueß (1831-1914) and Rudolf Hoernes (1850-1912).

In 1859, it presents to the Academy of Science of Vienna a communication on Mollusque S of fresh water dating from the Crétacé discovered in rocks of the North-East of the the Alps.

In 1861, it joined the Austrian geological research service.

It is thanks to the recommendation of Eduard Sueß that Stoliczka is engaged by the British scientific service of Calcutta in 1862. Between 1864 and 1874, it takes part in several forwardings in the the Himalayas where it piles up a great number of petrographic data and weather and where it constitutes a large collection of Roche S, Fossile S, Plante S, of Insecte S, some Mammifère S and a beautiful series of plumages.

With Calcutta, it starts with studies the Fossile S of the south of the India of the Crétacé and publishes Palaeontologia indica in collaboration with William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905).

In 1873, it joint with a British forwarding leaving itself for the Yarkand and the Kashgar under the direction Sir Douglas Forsyth (1827-1886). He dies because of the rigor of altitude at the time of the return of forwarding. The scientific report of its observations is published by Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912).

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