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Dragutin finished the elementary education in Zagreb. He started studiying paleontology in Zürich, Switzerland. Soon, he moved to München, where his lecturer was world renown expert in the areas of anatomy and paleontology Karl Zittel . He received a doctoral degree in 1879Events January January 11 Anglo-Zulu War begins January 22 Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Rorke's Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting. February February 12 At New York C, ( TübingenTubingen an old university city on the River Neckar in Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany, near Stuttgart, functions as the seat of the Administrative District of Tubingen, as well as of the county of Tubingen. In 2002 the city had 82,885 inhabitants, including, GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east), with the work related to the fossilized fishes.
From 1880Events January 1 Construction of the Panama Canal begins February 2 The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana February 13 Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect. February 17 Bomb explodes in Winter Palace, his duty was that of the curatorA curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. archive, library, museum) is a person who manages the institution's collection. In the United Kingdom it also to applied to government employees who monitor the quality of contract archaeological work under at Mineralogical Departmentof the Croatian National Museum and collaborated with his superior, the famous archaeologist Djuro Pilar mapping the Mount Medvednica, (medvjed=bear in Croatian languageThe Croatian language is a language of the western group of South Slavic languages which is used primarily by the Croats. It is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian.), in which foothills the very Zagreb is located. In 1890Events January 2 Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U. White House. January 25 The United Mine Workers of America is founded. January 25 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. March 1 Leon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest he changed his family name into -- Gorjanovic.
His lecturing started in 1883 with the paleontology of the vertibraes at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. With the year 1884 he was appointed assistant, associate and finally full professor it 1896. In 1893 he became head of the Geological-Paleontological Department of the Croatian National Museum in 1893 and was engaged in paleontology, stratigraphy, tectonics, paleoclimatology. Also in applied geology, geological mapping and hydrography. Gorjanovic-Kramberger discovered, described, classified, systemized, aged and determined environments for numerous new species of fossilized fishes. Already as the young scientist at the end of 19th century, he published more than fifty works in prestigious European scientific journals.