Career
He was born into a family of Aromanian origin. In 1885 he started his forensic training in Paris with Professor Paul Brouardel and soon after he became his assistant. He was the first to expand the concept of the morgue and created the term "legal medicine" as a way of organizing research, teaching and forensic activity.
His Institute, founded in 1892, was demolished in 1985 by the communist regime.
