Grigore Antipa [SEP] place of death
Grigore Antipa
Grigore Antipa (; 27 November 1867 in Botoșani – 9 March 1944 in Bucharest) was a Romanian Darwinist biologist who studied the fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name.
He is also considered to be the first person to modernize the diorama by emphasizing the three-dimensional aspect and first to use dioramas in a museum setting.
Additionally, Antipa was a specialist in zoology, ichthyology,
- Petrescu, I., (1998). Cumaceans (Crustacea: Cumacea) collected by the expedition of "Grigore Antipa" Museum of Natural History from the coasts of Tanzania (1973–1974). Part II. Genus Campylaspis Sars, 1865. "Travaux du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa"", 41: 281–298.
- Petrescu, I., (2000). Cumacea Crustacea collected from Tanzanian coasts by the 'Grigore Antipa' Museum of Natural History (Romania). Part iii. Genera "Cumella"