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Who was Mina Minovici, the doctor who founded Romanian forensic medicine and the institute that today bears his name

The name Mina Minovici is synonymous with the beginnings of Romanian forensic medicine, and his contributions remain fundamental to this field. Yet few people know the details of his professional journey, the difficult path he took to become one of the most important doctors of his time.Childhood and the making of an exceptional destinyHe was born...

Famous boulevard names: Carol I, the first king of Romania, founder of Independence and the man who civilized the Romanian people

Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, born on April 10, 1839, in Sigmaringen, Germany, was the personality who would definitively shape the destiny of modern Romania. The second son of Prince Karl Anton and Princess Josephine of Baden, young Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig came from a prestigious dynastic family, related to the Royal House of...

Famous park names: Nicolae Basilescu, the politician who invented Romanian champagne

Nicolae Basilescu, born on January 1, 1860, in Urlați, Prahova County, was not just a law professor or politician of his time. His life perfectly illustrated the profile of a complex man, with a vision far beyond the academic or political sphere. The beginnings of a remarkable destinyBasilescu trained as a jurist in Bucharest, and he completed his...

Cinematic Bucharest: famous films shot in the capital

Bucharest has never been just a backdrop. Over the decades, the capital has played many roles — a Soviet city, a grimy Paris, a post-apocalyptic setting, and sometimes even a recognizable version of itself, seen through a raw, honest, or poetic lens. Film has offered the city the chance to reinvent its identity and hide its scars beneath the glow o...

Ana Davila, the blue-blooded lady, a “mother” to hundreds of orphaned girls. The tragic poisoning of Dr. Carol Davila’s wife

Ana Racoviță, who would later become known as Ana Davila, was born in 1834 in Craiova, into a family that carried the noble heritage of the old Romanian boyar lineages. She was one of nine children born to Ana (Anca) Racoviță, née Golescu, and Alexandru Racoviță, a descendant of a family that had given several rulers to Wallachia and Moldavia. Thro...