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Mihai Băcescu – file noi la biografie
Mihai Băcescu – new biography pages

Author(s): Iorgu Petrescu
Subject(s): Scientific Life
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Băcescu; biography; unknown data;

Summary/Abstract: About Mihai Băcescu (1908–1999), the highest Roma nian oceanographer, one of the biggest specialist in Crustacea of the world from all times and manager of the „Grigore Antipa” Museum of natural History, very few and short biographies were written. I complete them with data obtained from his family personal archive. His mother, born Cârlănescu, was sister of Ioan Hudiță’s mother. He studied at „B. P. Hasdeu Highschool” from Chișinău. Professor Băcescu married Elisaveta Ivanov born in Chircăieşti, in the family of a priest. In 1938 he received a scholarship in France. After being named by Grigore Antipa head of department at the Museum of Natural History from Bucharest, he join the Romanian army during the World War II as observer shooting. It followed hard days after the war for the museum and its specialists.

  • Issue Year: 10/2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 273-281
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian