Anton Ramovš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anton Ramovš

Slovene geologist and paleontologist

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1924

Place of Birth: Dolenja Vas, Slovenia

Date of Death: 01-May-2011

Profession: writer, geologist, paleontologist

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Anton Ramovš (17 December 1924 – 1 May 2011) was a Slovene geologist and paleontologist.Ramovš was born in Dolenja Vas near Železniki in 1924.
He studied at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1950 and obtained his doctorate in 1956.
He worked at the University of Ljubljana.
His main area of research was petrographic and geological mapping.
He died in 2011. He won the Levstik Award in 1961 for his books Zemlja skozi milijone let and Geološki izleti po ljubljanski okolici (Earth Over Millions of Years and Geological Outings Around Ljubljana).