12 Facts About Grigore Antipa

Grigore Antipa is considered to be the first person to modernize the diorama by emphasizing the three-dimensional aspect and first to use dioramas in a museum setting.

Grigore Antipa is the scientist who reorganized the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in the new building that today bears his name, designed by the architect Grigore Cerchez, built in 1906 and inaugurated by Carol I of Romania in 1908.

Grigore Antipa was elected as member of the Romanian Academy in 1910 and was a member of several foreign academies.

Grigore Antipa founded a school of hydrobiology and ichthyology in Romania.

Grigore Antipa spent his childhood in Botosani, in a neighborhood inhabited by many Armenians and Jews, who taught him in foreign languages.

Grigore Antipa's father was a lawyer, but he lost his parents early and was raised by his aunts in a modest environment.

Grigore Antipa submitted his dissertation Die Lucernariden der Bremer Expedition nach Ostspitzbergen im Jahre 1889.

Grigore Antipa devoted himself to the study of the Danube and the Black Sea.

Grigore Antipa founded in 1932 the Biooceanographic Institute of Constanta, with the two reservations and research stations, the one in Agigea and the one at Cape Caliacra.

The ecological policy of optimizing natural phenomena, called by Grigore Antipa geonomy was replaced by one to counteract them, which logically led to the acceleration of canal currents, eutrophication of stagnant areas, and the collapse of fish productivity.

Grigore Antipa was director of the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History.

Also, the marine research ship "Grigore Antipa", which belongs to the Diving Center in Constanta, bears his name.