Gheorghe Marinescu

Gheorghe Marinescu
Gheorghe Marinescu on a 1962 Romanian post stamp
Born	28 February 1863 Bucharest, United Principalities
Died	15 May 1938 (1938-05-16) (aged 75) Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Nationality	Romania
Fields	Neurology
Alma mater	Bucharest University
Known for	Romanian School of Neurology

Gheorghe Marinescu (Romanian: [ˈɡe̯orɡe mariˈnesku]; 28 February 1863 – 15 May 1938) was a Romanian neurologist, founder of the Romanian School of Neurology.

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 Brâncoveanu Hospital and as assistant at the Bacteriological Institute under Victor Babeş, who had already published several works on myelitis transversa, hysterical muteness, and dilatation of the pupil in pneumonia.

After qualification, and on the recommendation of Babeş, the government awarded him a grant in Paris to undertake postgraduate training in neurology under Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière 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. He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1905.