Prof. Alexandru Slatineanu

Abstract

PROF. ALEXANDRU SLATINEANU, a leading Rumanian bacteriologist and hygienist, who died on November 27, 1939, was born at Bucharest on January 5, 1873. He studied medicine in Paris under Berger, Dejerine, Babinski and Metchnikoff, in whose laboratory at the Pasteur Institute he made the acquaintance of his compatriot Prof. Cantacuzène, with whom he was closely associated henceforth. He qualified in 1901 with a thesis on experimental Bacillus pfeiffer septicœmia,for which he received tke university medal awarded for theses of outstanding merit.