Josef Augusta (17 March 1903,
Boskovice,
Moravia – 4 February 1968,
Prague) was a
Czech paleontologist,
geologist, and science popularizer.
From 1921 to 1925 Augusta studied at the
Masaryk University in
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
. Between 1933 and 1968 he held posts at the
Charles University in Prague as lecturer, professor, and dean of the faculty.
In addition to his scientific work (about 120 publications), Augusta wrote about twenty books popularizing his profession, mostly targeted to the youth. He is best known for his reconstructions of
fossil flora and fauna, together with the painter
Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981). He participated as a science adviser in the movie ''
Journey to the Beginning of Time'' (1954).
The dinosaur ''
Burianosaurus augustai
''Burianosaurus'' is an extinct genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now the Czech Republic (it was found in 2003 near the city of Kutná Hora), being the first validly named dinosaur from that country. The type species, ''B. august ...
'' was named after him in 2017.
See also
*
List of Czech writers
Below is an alphabetical list of Czech writers.
A
* Daniel Adam z Veleslavína (1546–1599), lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer
* Michal Ajvaz (born 1949), novelist and poet, magic realist
* Karel Slavoj Amerling, also known ...
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1903 births
1968 deaths
People from Boskovice
Czech paleontologists
Charles University faculty
Czech non-fiction writers
Masaryk University alumni
20th-century Czech writers
20th-century non-fiction writers
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