Andrija mohorovicic seismology

Croatian seismologist and geophysicist

Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January – 18 December ) was a Croatian^[1]geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology.^[2][3]

Early years

Mohorovičić was born in Volosko, Opatija, where his father (also named Andrija), was a blacksmith, making anchors.

Andrija Mohorovičić (1857-1936)—On the occasion of the 150th ...

The younger Andrija also loved the sea and married a captain's daughter, Silvija Vernić. They had four sons. Mohorovičić obtained his elementary education in his home town, then continued at the gymnasium of neighbouring Rijeka. He received his higher education in mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague in , where one of his professors was Ernst Mach.

At 15, Mohorovičić knew Italian, English and French. Later he learned German, Latin, and Ancient Greek.^[4]

Career in education

He taught first at high school in Zagreb