13 Facts About Ferdinand Stoliczka

Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology.

Ferdinand Stoliczka died of high altitude sickness in Murgo during an expedition across the Himalayas.

Ferdinand Stoliczka, whose father was a forester who took care of the estate of the Archbishop of Olomouc, studied at a German Secondary school in Kromeriz.

Ferdinand Stoliczka studied geology and palaeontology at Prague and the University of Vienna under Professor Eduard Suess and Dr Rudolf Hoernes.

Ferdinand Stoliczka graduated with a Ph D from the University of Tubingen on 14 November 1861.

In 1862 Ferdinand Stoliczka joined the Geological Survey of India under the British Government in India after being recruited by Dr Thomas Oldham.

Ferdinand Stoliczka studied the geology of the western Himalayas and Tibet, and published numerous papers on many subjects including Indian zoology.

Ferdinand Stoliczka was briefly the joint curator of the Indian Museum and the Natural History Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Ferdinand Stoliczka visited Burma, Malaya and Singapore, and made two trips to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Rann of Kutch.

Ferdinand Stoliczka noted wild cheetahs from the region and what is Stoliczka's bushchat.

Ferdinand Stoliczka's dying request was that the birds part of the scientific results of the expedition be published by Allan Octavian Hume.

Hume however supported Ferdinand Stoliczka and wrote a note in the journal, Ibis, against the cabinet naturalists of London who knew nothing about the geography of India.

Some species and subspecies named after Ferdinand Stoliczka are listed below.