O personalitate prestigioasă în antropologie – dr. Cantemir Rişcuţia (1923–2003)
A Remarkable Personality of Anthropology – Dr. Cantemir Rişcuţia (1923–2003)

Summary/Abstract: Cantemir Rişcuţia was born in Bessarabia at Cetatea Albă on September 8, 1923. He follows Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bucharest, becoming a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. In 1949 he defended his doctoral thesis in Anthropology, „Study on malar bipartition in Romanians „, performed at the „Fr. I. Rainer Institute „. Initially he worked as museum curator, then assistant at the Institute of Anthropology and the Institute „I. Cantacuzino”. Between 1956–1993 he is a researcher at the Center for Anthropological Researches „Fr. I. Rainer”, Forensic Institute and „Victor Babeş” Institute in Bucharest. Using the method of prof. M. Gerasimov and his own methods, as foto stereometry, he subsequently applied in the Netherlands and Germany, performing numerous physionomical reconstructions, including those of prehistoric Schela Cladovei and Vărăşti and also the Homo erectus modjokertensis, pithecantrop in Indonesia. Together with his wife, Ms Irina Rişcuţia, his permanent collabo rator, carried out an extensive study of anthropology population of over 6,000 inhabitants of the Apuseni region. Together his wife Ms Irina Rişcuţia he collaborated with several museums in Romania. At The Antipa Museum performed between 1965– 1966, five microdioramas on „The origin and evolution of Man”, then the room „The Human Evolution” at Banat Museum in Timişoara etc. Particularly significant has been over the years, Dr. Rişcuţia’s collaboration with police on physionomical recon struction of victims, and especially criminals, of which the best known is „Râmaru case”, a serial killer. Dr. Cantemir Rişcuţia participates to numerous international sci entific meetings, where his achievements are appreciated laudatory.

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