Otokar Feistmantel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Czech geologist and paleontologist
Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1848
Place of Birth: Stará Huť, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Date of Death: 10-Feb-1891
Profession: geologist, pedagogue
Nationality: Czech Republic
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Otokar Feistmantel
- Otokar Eduard Franz Karel Feistmantel (other spellings include Otakar Feistmantl) (20 November 1848 - 10 February 1891) was a Czech-Austrian (born in Bohemia) geologist and paleontologist who studied in Prague and Berlin and worked with the Geological Survey of India in India where he replaced Ferdinand Stoliczka who died of altitude sickness on an expedition in 1874.
- Feistmantel described several genera and species of fossil plants from peninsular India and his work on the "Gondwana Series" contributed to the development of the idea of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwanaland.
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Source: Svetozor, year 1891, issue 14, digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences
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Source: Svetozor, year 1891, issue 14, digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences
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