File din istoria Facultății de Medicină Veterinară din București. Partea I: Înființarea și evoluția școlii de medicină veterinară din București, până în anul 1921
Pages from the history of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest. Part I: The establishment and evolution of the School of Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest, until 1921

Summary/Abstract: The School of Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest was established “de jure” in 1861, when the Romanian veterinary medicine education made an important qualitative leap, represented by the School of Veterinary Medicine from the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy, following Carol Davila’s initiative, confirmed by Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza’s Decree of 15 May 1861. The paper briefly depicts the evolution of veterinary medicine in Romania, since its beginnings and until today, from the first veterinary medicine lessons, which led to the formation of the first School of Veterinary Medicine, and later to the transformation in 1921 of the Higher School of Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest into the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Under the management of Professor Alexandru Locusteanu, the prestige of the veterinary school raised it to the rank of “Higher School of Veterinary Medicine” beginning with 1883; modernizing the educational process, by its significant applicative character; he selected the most valuable of his graduates to become the school’s academic staff, he imprinted a rigurous discipline, drawing out the first school regulation as well; he introduced the obligation to defend a thesis in order to get the degree of veterinary surgeon. He was preocuppied to obtain the necessary funds for the erection of the building on Splaiul Independentei no. 105, the headquarters still in use today, which he finished together with Ioan Popescu, who was the school manager alternatively with Locusteanu. In 1885, Professor Vasile Lucaci, aged 79, being considered the founding father of veterinary medicine education, was called to symbolically lay the founding stone to the building of the Higher School of Veterinary Medicine from Bucharest.

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