Tivadar Fuchs

* Prešov, September 15, 1842 – † Steinach am Brenner/Austria, October 5, 1925 / mineralogist, museum director ; ; son of Albert Fuchs (Lőcse), brother of Károly Henrik Fuchs (®Bratislava). He completed his high school studies in Bratislava. He initially studied medicine at the university in Vienna, later, at the encouragement of the distinguished Austrian paleontologist Eduard Suess (1831–1914), he became interested in mineralogy and paleontology and in 1863 he became a colleague of the Hofmineralienkabinett in Vienna, its guardian in 1880 and director of the geological-paleontological department in 1889. In 1880 he was habilitated as a private university teacher, and in 1897 he was appointed an extraordinary university professor. He primarily dealt with Tertiary formations and fossils. He occasionally published historical articles in Hungarian and German journals, and an article on evolution was published in the Natural History Journals (The System of Natural History and Darwinism, 1881). He was interested in Esperanto and translated a few chapters from one of his master's works, Suess, into Esperanto, and he translated into German the poem La vojo by the creator of Esperanto, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917).