{"id":15500,"date":"2022-06-27T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=210540"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:22:24","slug":"15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist\/","title":{"rendered":"15 minutes of fame: Franz Nopsca, Hungarian adventurer and palaeontologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Tom Holland\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 27 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">It\u2019s the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast\u2019s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we\u2019ve asked 15 historians to nominate a figure from history they think deserves their \u201815 minutes of fame\u2019. In this episode, <\/span><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">\u00a0Tom Holland nominates Franz Nopsca<\/span><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">.<\/span><span style=\"&quot;font-weight:\"> Speaking with Rob Attar, he recounts the story of the early 20th-century Hungarian palaeontologist, adventurer and specialist in Albanian studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-210540-3&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/06\/FranzNopsca-ad6c888.mp3?_=3&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/06\/FranzNopsca-ad6c888.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/06\/FranzNopsca-ad6c888.mp3<\/a><\/audio><section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>Browse more episodes about <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/15-minutes-fame-podcast-series\/&quot;\">figures from history who deserve 15 minutes of fame<\/a><\/h4>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Holland Published: Monday, 27 June 2022 at 12:00 am It\u2019s the HistoryExtra podcast\u2019s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we\u2019ve asked 15 historians to nominate a figure from history they think deserves their \u201815 minutes of fame\u2019. In this episode, \u00a0Tom Holland nominates Franz Nopsca. Speaking with Rob Attar, he recounts the story of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15501,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/15-minutes-of-fame-franz-nopsca-hungarian-adventurer-and-palaeontologist.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Tom Holland Published: Monday, 27 June 2022 at 12:00 am It\u2019s the HistoryExtra podcast\u2019s 15th birthday! 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