Gheorghe Marinescu

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Gheorghe Marinescu (* February 28 . Jul / 12 March 1863 greg. In Bucharest ; † 15. May 1938 ) was a Romanian neurologist and neuropathologist .

Gheorghe Marinescu on a Romanian postage stamp (1962)

Life

After graduating in medicine at the University of Bucharest in 1888 , Marinescu specialized in the histopathological laboratory of the Brâncoveanu Hospital and as an assistant at the Institute of Bacteriology under the direction of Victor Babes . On the recommendation of Babes, he went to Paris on a government scholarship , where he began his further training in neurology under Jean-Martin Charcot . At the Salpêtrière he also met Pierre Marie , Joseph Babinski and Fulgence Raymond . He later worked with Karl Weigert in Frankfurt am Main and then with Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond in Berlin . On the recommendation of Pierre Marie, he presented the newly gained knowledge about the pathomorphology of acromegaly at an international congress in Berlin in 1890 .

After nine years abroad, Marinescu returned to Bucharest in 1897. He received his doctorate from the University of Paris in the same year. In Bucharest a new chair in neurology was established for him at the Pantelimon Hospital . Shortly thereafter, he was appointed director of the Neurological University Clinic based in Spitalul Colentina . He held this position for 41 years. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Gheorghe Marinescu had close academic ties with his Parisian colleagues, and many of his 250+ articles were published in French.

Scientific work

The scientific work of Gheorghe Marinescu extended to the entire neurology including experimental neuropathology. He used the latest examination methods such as X-rays or the cinematography of the body position during the execution of various movements by healthy or neurologically ill people. The results of these studies appeared in the monograph Le tonus des muscles striés (1937) with the collaboration of N. Jonescu-Sisesti, Oskar Sager and Arthur Kreindler, with a foreword by Sir Charles Sherrington .

At the beginning of his scientific career, he published an atlas on the pathomorphology of diseases of the nervous system with Victor Babeș and the French pathologist Paul Oscar Blocq . His description, written with Blocq in 1893, of a case of Parkinson's-like tremor caused by damage to the substantia nigra was the basis for Edouard Brissaud's assumption that Parkinson's disease occurs as a result of a lesion in the substantia nigra . Together with Blocq, he was the first to describe the senile plaques , and with the Romanian neurologist Ion Minea , he confirmed the discovery by Noguchi Hideyo of Treponema pallidum in the brains of patients with progressive paralysis . His work La Cellule Nerveuse , with a foreword by Santiago Ramón y Cajal , was published in 1909.

In 1925 he was selected from all of Jean-Martin Charcot's students to evoke the figure of the great master at a ceremony on Charcot's 100th birthday.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Marinescu, Gheorghe. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 893.
  2. ^ Member entry of Gheorghe Marinesco at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 31, 2016.


personal data
SURNAME Marinescu, Gheorghe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian neurologist and neuropathologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1938
Place of death Bucharest