Cu ocazia evenimentului Noaptea Muzeelor 2023, Muzeul Universității din București a pregătit expoziția fizică O călătorie prin istoria învățământului de Științe de la Universitatea din București (1863-1948), constituită din zece panouri, completată de o expoziție digitală, și de mai multe exponate în vitrine și un stand unde se putea descoperi o „lume” minusculă printr-un microscop.
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Selectiv, prezentăm câteva din textele și imaginile acestor panouri, dar reamintim că o parte dintre ele pot fi descoperite (împreună cu documente noi și inedite) și în această expoziție digitală.
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Constantin I. Istrati într-o fotografie rară, la masa de lucru. În Spate se poate vedea o parte din biblioteca sa impresionantă.
Lucrare semnată de Ermil A. Pangrati.
Grigore Ștefănescu (1836-1911)
Grigore Ștefănescu a fost profesor de geologie și mineralogie la Facultatea de Științe a Universității din București. A fost și decan al acestei facultăți și rector al Universității din București. Director al Cabinetului de Geologie și Petrografie, director al Muzeului de Geologie și Paleontologie, membru al Academiei Române și directorul Biroului Geologic. A avut inițiativa realizării primei hărți geologice în România și îi datorăm printre altele și identificarea și reconstituirea scheletului de Deinotherium gigantissimum (mamifer erbivor puternic, deinotherium = animal teribil), găsit în Moldova și actualmente exponatul-vedetă al Muzeului Naţional de Istorie Naturală „Grigore Antipa“ din București.
Fotografie cu tabloul din patrimoniul Muzeului Universității din București în care este reprezentat Grigore Ștefănescu. În Arhiva Digitală a Muzeului Universității din București pot fi găsite și alte bunuri din patrimoniul MUB, unele care nu se află în cadrul expoziției permanente, precum acest tablou.
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Panel 8: Male Personalities
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Excerpt of thesis from Professor Ermil A. Pangrati.
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Grades obtained during the contest for the Descriptive Geometry and Perspective Professorship. Out of the 4 candidates, only Pangrati and Urechia will have been integrated into the department throughout time, the 1894 contest being presided by Alexandru Orăscu and won by Pangrati.
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Ion Simionescu was a geologist, palaeontologist, herald of the sciences, and one of the professors who transferred from Jassy to Bucharest. The alumni of the Faculty of Sciences of Bucharest have taught and attained performance in other universities as well.
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Report regarding the contest for the occupation of a seat at the Department of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Petrography, during which Ludovic Mrazec obtained the highest mark.
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Report that presents the disciplines for which exams were taken for the occupation of a seat at the Department of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Petrography. It also states the fact that Mrazec won the contest.
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The oath taken by Professor Ludovic Mrazec for taking occupying the position of director in the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction.
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Title list for the Faculty of Sciences – May 1893.
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Title list for the Botanic Institute, an integral part of the Faculty of Sciences – May 1893.
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The function of the entomologic stations – article written by Wilhelm K. Knechtel, german-born assistant at the Zoological Laboratory.
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Patent attached to the Bene Merenti Medal, first class, received by Professor Ludovic Mrazec.
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The 1916 article on the satellites surrounding Jupiter by Nicolae Coculescu, director of the Astronomical Observatory. At the moment of Coculescu’s article, one of the leading Romanian astronomers, Jupiter numbered 9 satellites. Now over 60 were identified.
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Dimitrie Leonida writing to Constantin Istrati to ask him for a review of some proposed books for a Romanian Academy prize.
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In this scientific magazine titled „The Bulletin of Pure and Applied Chemistry”, edited by the Romanian Society of Sciences and the most important professional association in the field, the academic community of the Faculty of Sciences heralds the scientific novelties.
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Negoiță Dănăilă, born on the 17th of April in 1878 in the village of Diecheni, Bucești commune, in the Tecuci County of the time (Ivești commune of Galați county in these times). He graduated from the Faculty of Sciences, Jassy University on August 18, 1902, being integrated afterwards as an assistant professor. Between 1904 and 1908 he attended the Polytechnic School of Charlottenburg – Berlin. From 1910 onwards he served as a stand-in professor at the Technical Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences in Bucharest and in 1920 he became a definitive professor. In 1919 he founded the Industrial Chemistry Institute that served as the basis for industrial chemistry education in the country, being in charge of training future chemistry engineers in the following specializations: oil, textiles and exposable fibres, organic technology and electrochemistry. The institute functioned until 1938 when it was transferred to the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. Negoiță Dănăilă continued his activity at the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry of the Polytechnic University. Furthermore, he also worked at the National Chemistry Research Institute until 1952, the year of his death. The main contribution of Negoiță Dănăilă is still considered the founding of the Romanian chemistry higher education that was part of the Faculty of Sciences.
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Emanoil Bacaloglu, a member of the Romanian Academy since 1879, writes to the president of the Romanian Academy about an international conference organised in Paris that he attended.
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Constantin I. Istrati at his working desk.
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Photography of Professor Spiru Haret together with his wife, Ana. Spiru Haret was an established mathematician, his memory is kept in national history for his successful efforts when it came to organising a modern educational system.
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Painting representing Grigore Ștefănescu, part of the University Museum heritage. Grigore Ștefănescu was a professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Sciences. He was the dean of the faculty and rector of the university. He also occupied the seat of director over the Geology and Petrography Department, of the Geology and Paleontology Museum and member of the Romanian Academy and director of the Geological Bureau. He had the initiative to realise the first geologic maps in Romania and we owe to him the identification and reconstruction of the Deinotherium gigantissimum skeleton, found in Moldova, nowadays a famous exhibit of the Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum of Bucharest. The dinosaur was a powerful herbivore, deinotherium meaning „terrible animal” in Latin.
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Demand for the confirmation of Grigore Ștefănescu, Sabba Ștefănescu and Grigore Antipa in the seats as directors of various laboratories that were part of the Faculty of Sciences.
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The reception speech from the Romanian Academy held by the mathematician Dimitrie Pompeiu.
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Alexandru Zaharia organised the agricultural chemistry educational system through the founding of an institute that was part of the Faculty of Sciences. Through his publications and the creation of true schools in the field with many important disciples.
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Photography of Dimitrie Brândză, a professor that organised the Botanical Garden on Cotroceni Hill.
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A bust representing Constantin I. Istrati – from the heritage of the Museum of University of Bucharest.
* qr code with the Index of male persons from the Faculty of Sciences.
[English translation: Rareș Moise]
