 gheorghe marinescu (; february 28, 1863 &ndash; may 15, 1938) was a romanian neurologist, founder of the romanian school of neurology. ==history== after the attendance of medicine at the bucharest university, marinescu received most of his medical education as preparator at the laboratory of histology at the brÃ¢ncoveanu hospital and as assistant at the bacteriological institute under victor babeÅ, who had already published several works on myelitis transversa, hysterical muteness, and dilatation of the pupil in pneumonia. ==career== after qualification, and on the recommendation of babeÅ, the government awarded him a grant in paris to undertake postgraduate training in neurology under jean-martin charcot at the salpÃªtriÃ¨re hospital, where he met pierre marie, joseph babinski and fulgence raymond. later, he worked with carl weigert in frankfurt a.m. and then with emil du bois-reymond in berlin. on the assignment of pierre marie, he lectured on the pathological anatomy of acromegaly at the berlin international congress in 1890. after nine years abroad, marinescu returned, in 1897, to bucharest, where he received his doctorateand began a new professorial department at pantelimon hospital which had been created for him. shortly thereafter, in 1897, a chair of clinical neurology was created at the university of bucharest, in colentina hospital. he remained in this post for the next 41 years and is regarded as the founder of the romanian school of neurology. between july 1898 and 1901, the marinescu made the first science films in the world in his clinic in bucharest:mircea dumitrescu, o privire criticÄ asupra filmului romÃ¢nesc, braÈov, 2005, isbn 973-9153-93-3 the walking troubles of organic hemiplegy (1898), the walking troubles of organic paraplegies (1899), a case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis (1899), the walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy (1900) and illnesses of the muscles (1901). all these short subjects have been preserved. the professor called his works "studies with the help of the cinematograph", and published the results, a
1863_births 1938_deaths Neurologists People_from_Bucharest Romanian_inventors Romanian_scientists