Document in Grigore T. Popa’s own handwriting - picture
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The first page of a document belonging to the "Grigore T. Popa" Collection within the Museum of the History of Medicine - UMF Iași.
Story of the object
Grigore T. Popa wrote numerous pages, which are now preserved as valuable documents for the history of Romanian and universal science. In the "Grigore T. Popa" Collection there are pages written in Romanian, German, French and English, languages in which the Romanian professor often gave lectures in the Romanian and European space. This excerpt is part of a conference in which Grigore T. Popa spoke about the path of Romanian medicine in difficult times for Romania.
Grigore T. Popa (sometimes Anglicized to Gregor T. Popa; May 1, 1892 – July 18, 1948) was a Romanian physician and public intellectual. Of lowly peasant origin, he managed to obtain a university education and become a professor at two of his country's leading universities. An anatomist by specialty, Popa worked on popularizing modern science, reforming the medical and higher education systems, and, in war hospitals, as a decorated and publicly acclaimed practitioner. His work in endocrinology and neuromorphology was valued abroad, while at home he helped train a generation of leading doctors.
Ill-treated by successive fascist dictatorships, Popa adhered to moderate left-wing ideals and publicized them by means of his review, Însemnări Ieșene. He criticized Marxism as much as scientific racism, but condemned Romania's participation in the war against the Soviets, and, in 1944, joined a protest movement of high-profile academics. During his final years, his anticommunism and his Christian democratic stances brought him into conflict with the authorities. The Communist Romanian regime drove him out of his teaching position and harassed him until his death in middle age. Upon the restoration of democracy, his alma mater and the school where he taught for much of his career was named in his honor.
Grigore T. Popa (sometimes Anglicized to Gregor T. Popa; May 1, 1892 – July 18, 1948) was a Romanian physician and public intellectual. Of lowly peasant origin, he managed to obtain a university education and become a professor at two of his country's leading universities. An anatomist by specialty, Popa worked on popularizing modern science, reforming the medical and higher education systems, and, in war hospitals, as a decorated and publicly acclaimed practitioner. His work in endocrinology and neuromorphology was valued abroad, while at home he helped train a generation of leading doctors.
Ill-treated by successive fascist dictatorships, Popa adhered to moderate left-wing ideals and publicized them by means of his review, Însemnări Ieșene. He criticized Marxism as much as scientific racism, but condemned Romania's participation in the war against the Soviets, and, in 1944, joined a protest movement of high-profile academics. During his final years, his anticommunism and his Christian democratic stances brought him into conflict with the authorities. The Communist Romanian regime drove him out of his teaching position and harassed him until his death in middle age. Upon the restoration of democracy, his alma mater and the school where he taught for much of his career was named in his honor.
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The document was entrusted by the family to Dr. Richard Constantinescu, iatro-historian and biographer of Grigore T. Popa. It has the acceptance of the family to be publicly exposed and reproduced as an image but also text in publications or volumes of documents. It was written on A4 sheets of paper, with a pen on one side and is in preservation in the archives of the Museum of the History of Medicine - UMF Iași, where it can be consulted or photocopied.
In this document Grigore T. Popa describes the problems of medicine in Romania before and after the World War II. The medical schools in Romania were founded on the French model, but soon came the German influence and after the World War II the American period. Some doctors as studied in France (Thoma Ionescu, Gheorghe Marinescu and E. Juvara), some in Germany (Victor Babeș and Emil Pușcariu) and the following, Grigore T. Popa, Marius Nasta and Ion Bălteanu in America.
In this document Grigore T. Popa describes the problems of medicine in Romania before and after the World War II. The medical schools in Romania were founded on the French model, but soon came the German influence and after the World War II the American period. Some doctors as studied in France (Thoma Ionescu, Gheorghe Marinescu and E. Juvara), some in Germany (Victor Babeș and Emil Pușcariu) and the following, Grigore T. Popa, Marius Nasta and Ion Bălteanu in America.
