15 Facts About Nicolae Paulescu

Nicolae Paulescu was a leading member of the militant religious fascist Iron Guard.

Nicolae Paulescu displayed remarkable abilities as early as his first school years.

Nicolae Paulescu learned French, Latin and Ancient Greek at an early age, so that a few years later he became fluent in all these languages and was able to read classical works of Latin and Greek literature in the original.

Nicolae Paulescu had a particular gift for drawing and music and special inclinations towards natural sciences, such as physics and chemistry.

Nicolae Paulescu graduated from the Mihai Viteazul High School in Bucharest in 1888.

In 1900, Nicolae Paulescu returned to Romania, where he remained until his death as Head of the Physiology Department of the University of Bucharest Medical School, as well as a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the St Vincent de Paul Hospital in Bucharest.

From 24 April to 23 June 1921, Nicolae Paulescu published four papers at the Romanian Section of the Society of Biology in Paris:.

The method used by Nicolae Paulescu to prepare his pancreatic extract was similar to a procedure described by the American researcher Israel Kleiner in an article published two years earlier, in 1919, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Nicolae Paulescu prepared pancreatic extract in 1916 and tested it in dogs, but Israel Kleiner tested pancreatic extract in dogs in 1915, as did George Ludwig Zuelzer in 1906.

Nicolae Paulescu has been criticized for his political activity centered on antisemitic views and eugenism, which found their expression in articles such as The Judeo-Masonic plot against the Romanian nation :.

Nicolae Paulescu heavily influenced the leader of the Iron Guard organisation, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

Codreanu extensively quoted Nicolae Paulescu, and acknowledged the powerful impact that Nicolae Paulescu's ideas had on his own development.

Nicolae Paulescu was the first to link together Romanian antisemitism, Christianity and ultranationalism.

Nicolae Paulescu's starting point was a theory of passions and of social conflicts examined from the angle of a discipline he called "philosophical physiology".

Nicolae Paulescu was honoured on a postage stamp issued by Romania in 1994.