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Grigore Antipa

1867 - 1944

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Grigore Antipa (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡriˈɡore anˈtipa]; 27 November 1867 in Botoșani – 9 March 1944 in Bucharest) was a Romanian naturalist, zoologist, ichthyologist, ecologist, oceanologist, Darwinist biologist who studied the fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name. He is also considered to be the first person to modernize the diorama by emphasizing the three-dimensional aspect and first to use dioramas in a museum setting. He is the scientist who reorganized the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in the new building that today bears his name, designed by the architect Grigore Cerchez, built in 1906 and inaugurated by Carol I of Romania in 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigore Antipa is the 961st most popular biologist (down from 866th in 2019), the 449th most popular biography from Romania (down from 430th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Grigore Antipa ranks 961 out of 1,097. Before him are William Healey Dall, Francis Willughby, Jinzō Matsumura, Gilbert White, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Robert Morison. After him are Ivan Lepyokhin, Curt Backeberg, William Diller Matthew, Archibald Menzies, John Torrey, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Grigore Antipa ranks 139. Before him are György Almásy, Ludwig Thoma, Ernest Dowson, Frank Brangwyn, Timrava, and Wilberforce Eaves. After him are Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, George William Russell, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Simon Guggenheim, José Vicente Concha, and Florence Fuller. Among people deceased in 1944, Grigore Antipa ranks 282. Before him are Josef Lhévinne, Rose O'Neill, Perry McGillivray, Kang Kyeong-ae, Hermann Hansen, and Endre Steiner. After him are Frank Knox, Stephen Leacock, Victor Basch, Michael Pedersen Friis, George Clausen, and Emine Semiye Önasya.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Grigore Antipa ranks 449 out of 844. Before him are Radu Mihăileanu (1958), Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei (1946), Grigore Moisil (1906), Leon Rotman (1934), Ion Agârbiceanu (1882), and Manolache Costache Epureanu (1823). After him are Alexandru Cuedan (1910), Solomon Marcus (1925), Mircea David (1914), Victor Ciorbea (1954), Maria Vicol (1935), and Gyula Prassler (1916).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

Among biologists born in Romania, Grigore Antipa ranks 6. Before him are Ana Aslan (1897), Johann Hedwig (1730), Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), and Emil Racoviță (1868).

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