Ștefan Minovici

Ștefan Minovici (July 18, 1867 – December 29, 1935) was a Romanian chemist.

Ștefan Minovici
Born(1867-07-18)July 18, 1867
Râmnicu Sărat
DiedDecember 29, 1935(1935-12-29) (aged 68)
Pitești
CitizenshipRomania
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Humboldt University of Berlin
Scientific career
InstitutionsCarol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
University of Bucharest

The brother of Mina Minovici and Nicolae Minovici, he became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1925.[1]

Education

Minovici was born in Râmnicu Sărat into a family of Aromanian origin.[2][3] After studying in Brăila from 1875 to 1882, he moved to Bucharest, where he completed his high school studies at Saint Sava National College in 1887.[2] He then enrolled in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Bucharest, majoring in physics and chemistry, and received a B.S. in 1893. The year after he went to study at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin under Emil Fischer, graduating in 1897.[2]

Career

In 1899 Minovici joined the faculty at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. In 1912 he was promoted to full professor at the University of Bucharest, while in 1925 he became director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the university.[2] At that time he founded the Society of Chemistry in Romania, which became the official body representing Romania within the Paris-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.[4]

Minovici died suddenly on December 29, 1935 in Pitești of a cerebral hemorrhage.[2]

Publications
  • Minovici, Ștefan (1907), Manualul Teoretic și Practic de Chimie Analitică (Analiza Calitativă), București: Institutul de Arte Grafice și Editură "Minerva"
  • Minovici, Ștefan (1910), Manualul Teoretic și Practic de Chimie Analitică (Analiza Cantitativa), Vol. II, București: Institutul de Arte Grafice și Editură "Minerva"
  • Minovici, Ștefan; Vanghelovici, Mihail (1934). "Contributions to our knowledge of cholesterol". Journal of Chemical Education. American Chemical Society (ACS). 11 (12): 637. doi:10.1021/ed011p637. ISSN 0021-9584.

Notes
  1. "Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent". Romanian Academy (in Romanian).
  2. Majuru, Adrian (December 2, 2008). "Chimistul Minovici". Ziarul de Duminică (in Romanian).
  3. "Moștenirea uitată a familiei Minovici". Jurnalul Național. October 18, 2004. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  4. Majuru, Adrian (2016). "The Minovici siblings - medical pioneering and spiritual universe" (PDF). Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine. 24: 150–154. doi:10.4323/rjlm.2016.150.
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