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Dimitrie Grecescu

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and opposed to the creationist paradigm. As director of the botanical garden, he contributed to its organization and systematization along scientific lines, and also intensified exchanges with foreign colleagues. He put together two valuable herbaria, one for the flora of Romania and another covering
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in 1866, serving until 1874. In 1868, he rose to full professor of medical botany. He taught pharmacy at the university level from 1869 to 1895, and was a professor at the
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Grecescu was among the founders of research into floristics and phytogeography in Romania. He compiled a detailed inventory of Romania's flora, published in 1898 as
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He authored studies on the history of botany and on medical botany. As a thinker on biological phenomena, Grecescu was an adherent of the
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Europe. Along with the building of the botanical institute, these were destroyed in the
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I. C. Tarnavschi, "125 de ani de la nașterea lui Dimitrie Grecescu", in
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in 1898, he rose to titular status in 1907. He belonged to the
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theory on the genesis of organisms, rejecting the notion of
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botanist, physician and historiographer of science.
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Index


Bucharest Botanical Garden
Romanian
Cerneți
Oltenia
Principality of Wallachia
Turnu Severin
Bucharest
Carol Davila
University of Paris
favid
Trichophyton
Charles-Philippe Robin
Bucharest Botanical Garden
University of Bucharest
Romanian Academy
Moscow Society of Naturalists
de Candolle system
Bucegi Mountains
Agapia
Văratec
Neamț
Gorj
Argeș
Suceava
Ceahlău Massif
Macedonia
Pasteurian
spontaneous generation
Lamarckism

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