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'''Emil Racoviţă''' ({{IPA-ro|eˈmil ˈrakovit​͡sə}}; also spelled '''Racovitza'''; November 15, 1868 – November 17, 1947) was a ]n ], ], ] and ] of ]. '''Emil Gheorghe Racoviță''' ({{IPA|ro|eˈmil ˈrakovit͡sə|lang}}; 15 November 1868 – 19 November 1947) was a ] ], ], ], and ].


Together with ], he was one of the most noted promoters of ] in Romania. Racoviţă was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the ], more than 100 years ago, as well as an influential professor, scholar and researcher. Together with ], he was one of the most noted promoters of ] in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic. He was an influential professor, scholar and researcher, and served as ] from 1926 to 1929.


==Early life== ==Early life==
Born in ], he grew up on a family estate, in ], ], he started his education in Iași, where he had ] as a teacher, and continued his secondary education at the ''Institutele Unite'', a private high school for boys in Iași, taking his ] in 1886. He then studied law at the ], obtaining a law degree in 1889. But he did not pursue a law career, instead turning to the natural sciences.<ref>Keith Rodney Benson, Philip F. Rehbock (2002). '''', University of Washington, p. 272. {{ISBN|0-295-98239-X}}</ref>
Emil Racoviţă was born in ] to the ] of ]n ], whose ancestors had ascended the throne of the country during the 18th century.


Racoviţă spent his childhood on the family estate, in ], ]. He started his education in Iaşi, where he had ] as a teacher, and continued his secondary education at the "Institutele Unite" high school, taking his ] in 1886. He then studied law at the ], obtaining a law degree in 1889. But he did not pursue a law career, instead turning to the natural sciences. His mentor was zoologist and biologist ], a professor at the ] and at the ]. Racoviţă earned a ] degree in 1891, and a ] degree in 1896, for a thesis on ''Le lobe cephalique et l’encéphale des Annélides Polychète'' ("The cephalous lobe and the ] of ]"). His mentor was zoologist and biologist ], a professor at the ] and at the ]. Racoviță earned a ] degree in 1891, and a ] degree in 1896, for a thesis on ''Le lobe cephalique et l’encéphale des Annélides Polychète'' ("The cephalous lobe and the ] of ]").


As a student, Racovița was attracted to ]. He was a founding member of the ], as well as a leading member of the ].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://historia.ro/sectiune/portret/emil-racovita-elev-al-lui-ion-creanga-2328901.html | title=Emil Racoviță, elev al lui Ion Creangă }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.e-racovita.ro/index.php/emil-racovi | title=Despre Emil Racoviţă }}</ref>
==The ''Belgica'' expedition==
''Main article: ]''


==''Belgica'' expedition==
As a promising young scientist, Racoviţă was selected to be part of an international team that started out on a research expedition to Antarctica, aboard the ship '']''.
{{main|Belgian Antarctic Expedition}}
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As a promising young scientist, Racoviță was selected to be part of an international team that started out on a research expedition to Antarctica, aboard the {{RV|Belgica|1884|2}}. The expedition was led by the Belgian officer ], who was also the ship's owner.


===Ship and crew=== ===Ship and crew===
On 16 August 1897, under the ] of the Royal Society of Geography in ], the ''Belgica'', a former Norwegian wooden ], left the port of ], setting sail for the South. It was the ship that gave its name to the whole expedition. The three-mast ship was equipped with a 160 horse-power engine.
]
On 16 August 1897, under the ] of the Royal Society of Geography in ], ], the ''Belgica'', a former ] wooden ], left the port of ], setting sail for the South. It was the ship that gave its name to the whole expedition. The three-mast ship was equipped with a 160 horse-power engine.


The 19 members of the team were of various nationalities. The first mate of the vessel was ]&nbsp;– who was to conquer the ] in 1911. Apart from Racoviță, the team was made up of Belgian physicist ], Polish geologist and oceanographer ] with his assistant ] and American physician ].
The expedition was led by the Belgian officer ], who was also the ship's owner.


=== Scientific work ===
The 19 members of the team were of various nationalities, a rare thing for that time. The first mate of the vessel was ] (who was to conquer the ] in 1911). Apart from Racoviţă, the team was made up of Belgian ] ], ] ] and ] ] with his assistant ] and ] ] ].
].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cade |first=DL |date=2 September 2016 |title=This is the World's First Underwater Portrait, Taken in 1899 |url=https://petapixel.com/2016/09/02/worlds-first-underwater-portrait-taken-1899 |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=]}}</ref>]]
The team left the deck of the ship 22 times, in order to collect scientific data, to conduct investigations and experiments. Racoviță was the first researcher to collect ] and zoological samples from areas beyond the ].<ref>{{CiteQ|Q119842165}}</ref> He found the first flowering plants that were collected in Antarctica, and collected the type specimens of the flightless ] '']'', the only insect that can survive year-round in Antarctica.<ref>{{CiteQ|Q119841816}}</ref><ref>{{CiteQ|Q119841481}}</ref>


Belgica made the first daily ] recordings and measurements in Antarctica, every hour, for a whole year. The scientists also collected information on ]s and ], with as many as 10 volumes of scientific conclusions being published at the end of the expedition, which was considered a success.
===Scientific work===
The team left the deck of the ship 22 times, in order to collect scientific data, to conduct investigations and experiments. Racoviţă was the first researcher to collect ] and zoological samples from areas beyond the ].


=== Obstacles ===
Belgica made the first daily ] recordings and measurements in Antarctica, every hour, for a whole year. The scientists also collected information on ]s and ], with as many as 10 volumes of scientific conclusions being published at the end of the expedition, which was considered a success.
The expedition encountered several hardships. Between 10 March 1898 and 14&nbsp;March 1899, ''Belgica'' was caught between ice blocks, making it impossible to sail any further. The crew had to carve a {{convert|75|m|ft|-1|sp=us|adj=mid|-long}} canal through a {{convert|6|m|ft|spell=in|sp=us|adj=mid|-thick}} layer of ice, in order to generate a waterway by which to sail to a navigable body of water. ''Belgica'' returned to Europe in 1899 without two team-members, who had died during the expedition: Norwegian mariner Carl Wiencke (lost overboard), and Émile Danco {died natural causes}.


Racoviță's diary, published in 1899, makes mention of the difficulties that the team-members had to endure. Photos of the time show that he was hardly recognisable after returning from the expedition. The results of his research were published in 1900, under the title ''La vie des animaux et des plantes dans l'Antarctique'' ("The life of animals and plants in Antarctica"). A year after his return, Racoviță was appointed director of the ] resort and editor of the review ''Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale''.
===The 1898 obstacles===
The expedition encountered several hardships. Between March 10, 1898, and March 14, 1899, ''Belgica'' was caught between ice blocks, making it impossible to sail any further. It was a difficult year for the whole team. For instance, the crew had to carve a 75 meter-long canal through a 6 meter-thick layer of ice, in order to generate a waterway by which to sail to a navigable body of water.


== Later life ==
''Belgica'' returned to ] in 1899 without two team-members, who had died during the expedition: a young Belgian mariner and Émile Danco.
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Racoviță continued his research, contributing to speleology and exploring over 1,400&nbsp;caves in France, Spain, Algeria, Italy, and Slovenia. He is considered to be, together with ], one of the founders of ].<ref>{{Citation|last=Racoviță|first=Gheorghe|contribution=The Founder of Biospeleology and World’s First Speleological Institute| year=2019| url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-90747-5_1|title=Cave and Karst Systems of Romania|series=Cave and Karst Systems of the World |pages=1–3|editor-last=Ponta|editor-first=Gheorghe M. L.|place=Cham|publisher=]|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-90747-5_1|isbn=978-3-319-90745-1|s2cid=165492577 |editor2-last=Onac|editor2-first=Bogdan P.}}</ref> He was particularly interested in ], of which he discovered many.


In 1919, Racoviță became head of the biology department at the ] in ], and served as ] of the University from 1929 to 1930. He founded the world's first speleological institute there on 26&nbsp;April 1920,{{refn|The ], a student society, was founded in 1919.|group=nb}} first as a section which was, however, to function independently since 1956, with professor Constantin Motas. In 1920, he became a titular member of the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://acad.ro/bdar/armembriLit.php?vidT=R|title= Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent|language=ro|publisher=At the ] site|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref> and served as President of the Academy from 1926 to 1929.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://acad.ro/academia2002/acadrom/pag04b.htm|title= Presendinți ai Academiei Române, 1901–1959|language=ro|publisher=At the ] site|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
Racoviţă’s diary, published in 1899, makes mention of the difficulties that the team-members had to endure. Photos of the time show that he was hardly recognisable after returning from the expedition.


In the aftermath of the ] of August&nbsp;1940, the Faculty of Sciences and the Institute of Speleology at the University of Cluj were forced to move out of the city and take refuge in ]. After ], Racoviță made great efforts to reorganize the institute.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emil Racoviță, primul român la Polul Sud|url=https://adevarul.ro/news/societate/emil-racovita-roman-polul-sud-1_50ac24847c42d5a663853fe7/index.html|newspaper=]|language=ro|date=August 13, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2020}}</ref> He died in November&nbsp;1947 in Cluj-Napoca, and was buried in the city's ].
The results of his research were published in 1900, under the title ''La vie des animaux et des plantes dans l’Antarctique'' ("The life of animals and plants in Antarctica"). A year after his return, Racoviţă was appointed director of the ] resort and editor of the review ''Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale''.


==Later life== ==Legacy==
]
Emil Racoviţă continued his research, contributing to speleology and exploring over 1,400 caves in ], ], ], ], and ]. He is considered to be, together with ], one of the founders of ''biospeleology''. He was particularly interested in ] of which he discovered many.
There are two caves named after him. One is the {{ill|Emil Racoviță Cave|ro|Peștera Emil Racoviță}}, located in ]; with an area of {{convert|50|ha|acres}}, it is the largest cave in ] and the third longest cave in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nordnews.md/curiozitatea-curiozitatilor-stiati-ca-pestera-emil-racovita-din-criva-este-a-treia-cea-mai-mare-pestera-de-ghips-din-lume/|title=Curiozitatea curiozităților! Știați că Peștera "Emil Racoviță" din Criva este a treia cea mai mare peșteră de ghips din lume?|website=nordnews.md|language=ro|date=June 6, 2019|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref> The other one is the {{ill|Racoviță Cave|ro|Peștera Racoviță}}, located in ], ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ran.cimec.ro/sel.asp?descript=iabalcea-carasova-caras-severin-situl-arheologic-de-la-iabalcea-pestera-racovita-cod-sit-ran-51822.08|title=Repertoriul Arheologic Național (RAN) |website=ran.cimec.ro|language=ro|date=December 12, 2011|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
In 1919, Racoviţă became head of the Biology Department at the ''Upper Dacia University'' (now the ]) in ]. He founded the world's first Speleological Institute in 26 April 1920 there, first as a section which was, however, to function independently since ], with professor Constantin Motas. ISER (''Institutul Speologic Emil Racoviţă''&mdash;Romanian for ''The Emil Racoviţă Speleologic Institute''), a branch of the Cluj institute was open in ].


In 2006, the first Romanian Antarctic exploration station was named the Law-Racoviță Station (known since 2011 as the ]).
In 1920, he became a member of the ], and remained a major figure of scientific life in Romania until his death.


] issued several stamps in his honor: 55&nbsp;] and 1.20&nbsp;] stamps in 1958, a 55&nbsp;bani stamp in 1968, a 4&nbsp;lei stamp in 1985, a 2&nbsp;lei stamp in 1986, a 4.50&nbsp;lei stamp in 1997, and a 1.60&nbsp;lei stamp in 2007. The last one is part of a series of four stamps (] 4911–4914) commemorating 100&nbsp;years since the foundation by Racoviță of the first biospeleology institute in the world.
In 2006, the first Romanian Antarctic exploration station was named ].


In 2018, on the 150th anniversary of Racoviță's birth, the ] put into circulation a commemorative silver coin with a face value of 10&nbsp;lei.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bnr.ro/page.aspx?prid=15056|publisher=] | title=Emisiune numismatică cu tema 150 de ani de la nașterea lui Emil Racoviță|language=ro|date=August 3, 2018|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref>
==Major works==

==See also==
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== Publications ==
* ''Essai sur les problèmes biospéologiques'' ("Essay on biospeleological problems"; 1907) * ''Essai sur les problèmes biospéologiques'' ("Essay on biospeleological problems"; 1907)
* ''Cétacés''. Voyage du S. Y. Belgica en 1897–1899. Résultats scientifiques. Zoologie. J. E. Buschmann, Anvers, 1903.
* ''Speologia'' ("Speology"; 1927)
* ''Énumération des grottes visitées'', series 1–7. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, Paris, 1907–1929 (in collaboration with René Jeannel) ("Enumeration of visited caves")
* ''Evoluţia şi problemele ei'' ("Evolution and its problems"; 1929)
* ''Speologia: O știință nouă a străvechilor taine subpământești''. Astra, Secția Științelor naturale, Biblioteca populară, Cluj, 1927. ("Speleology: A new science of the old underworld mysteries"; 1927)
* ''Evoluția și problemele ei'' ("Evolution and its problems"; 1929)


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Romanian polar explorer
Emil Racoviță
Racoviță around 1897
BornEmil Gheorghe Racoviță
(1868-11-15)15 November 1868
Iași, United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
Died19 November 1947(1947-11-19) (aged 79)
Cluj-Napoca, Kingdom of Romania
Resting placeHajongard Cemetery, Cluj-Napoca
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsBiology, speleology, zoology
InstitutionsBabeș-Bolyai University
Thesis Le lobe cephalique et l’encéphale des Annélides Polychète  (1896)
Doctoral advisorHenri de Lacaze-Duthiers

Emil Gheorghe Racoviță (Romanian: [eˈmil ˈrakovit͡sə]; 15 November 1868 – 19 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer.

Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic. He was an influential professor, scholar and researcher, and served as President of the Romanian Academy from 1926 to 1929.

Early life

Born in Iași, he grew up on a family estate, in Șurănești, Vaslui County, he started his education in Iași, where he had Ion Creangă as a teacher, and continued his secondary education at the Institutele Unite, a private high school for boys in Iași, taking his baccalauréat in 1886. He then studied law at the University of Paris, obtaining a law degree in 1889. But he did not pursue a law career, instead turning to the natural sciences.

His mentor was zoologist and biologist Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, a professor at the Sorbonne and at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Racoviță earned a B.S. degree in 1891, and a Ph.D. degree in 1896, for a thesis on Le lobe cephalique et l’encéphale des Annélides Polychète ("The cephalous lobe and the encephalon of polychaetous annelids").

As a student, Racovița was attracted to socialism. He was a founding member of the Second International, as well as a leading member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Romania.

Belgica expedition

Main article: Belgian Antarctic Expedition
Belgica in the Gerlache Strait

As a promising young scientist, Racoviță was selected to be part of an international team that started out on a research expedition to Antarctica, aboard the Belgica. The expedition was led by the Belgian officer Adrien de Gerlache, who was also the ship's owner.

Ship and crew

On 16 August 1897, under the aegis of the Royal Society of Geography in Brussels, the Belgica, a former Norwegian wooden whaler, left the port of Antwerp, setting sail for the South. It was the ship that gave its name to the whole expedition. The three-mast ship was equipped with a 160 horse-power engine.

The 19 members of the team were of various nationalities. The first mate of the vessel was Roald Amundsen – who was to conquer the South Pole in 1911. Apart from Racoviță, the team was made up of Belgian physicist Émile Danco, Polish geologist and oceanographer Henryk Arctowski with his assistant Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski and American physician Frederick Cook.

Scientific work

Racoviță diving in 1899 is the first underwater portrait and is regarded as one of the most important photos in history.

The team left the deck of the ship 22 times, in order to collect scientific data, to conduct investigations and experiments. Racoviță was the first researcher to collect botanical and zoological samples from areas beyond the Antarctic Circle. He found the first flowering plants that were collected in Antarctica, and collected the type specimens of the flightless midge Belgica antarctica, the only insect that can survive year-round in Antarctica.

Belgica made the first daily meteorological recordings and measurements in Antarctica, every hour, for a whole year. The scientists also collected information on oceanic currents and terrestrial magnetism, with as many as 10 volumes of scientific conclusions being published at the end of the expedition, which was considered a success.

Obstacles

The expedition encountered several hardships. Between 10 March 1898 and 14 March 1899, Belgica was caught between ice blocks, making it impossible to sail any further. The crew had to carve a 75-meter-long (250 ft) canal through a six-meter-thick (20 ft) layer of ice, in order to generate a waterway by which to sail to a navigable body of water. Belgica returned to Europe in 1899 without two team-members, who had died during the expedition: Norwegian mariner Carl Wiencke (lost overboard), and Émile Danco {died natural causes}.

Racoviță's diary, published in 1899, makes mention of the difficulties that the team-members had to endure. Photos of the time show that he was hardly recognisable after returning from the expedition. The results of his research were published in 1900, under the title La vie des animaux et des plantes dans l'Antarctique ("The life of animals and plants in Antarctica"). A year after his return, Racoviță was appointed director of the Banyuls-sur-Mer resort and editor of the review Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale.

Later life

Statue in Palma de Mallorca

Racoviță continued his research, contributing to speleology and exploring over 1,400 caves in France, Spain, Algeria, Italy, and Slovenia. He is considered to be, together with René Jeannel, one of the founders of biospeleology. He was particularly interested in isopoda, of which he discovered many.

In 1919, Racoviță became head of the biology department at the Upper Dacia University in Cluj-Napoca, and served as Rector of the University from 1929 to 1930. He founded the world's first speleological institute there on 26 April 1920, first as a section which was, however, to function independently since 1956, with professor Constantin Motas. In 1920, he became a titular member of the Romanian Academy, and served as President of the Academy from 1926 to 1929.

In the aftermath of the Second Vienna Award of August 1940, the Faculty of Sciences and the Institute of Speleology at the University of Cluj were forced to move out of the city and take refuge in Timișoara. After World War II, Racoviță made great efforts to reorganize the institute. He died in November 1947 in Cluj-Napoca, and was buried in the city's Hajongard Cemetery.

Legacy

Stamp from 2007

There are two caves named after him. One is the Emil Racoviță Cave [ro], located in Criva, Briceni; with an area of 50 hectares (120 acres), it is the largest cave in Moldova and the third longest cave in Europe. The other one is the Racoviță Cave [ro], located in Iabalcea, Caraș-Severin County.

In 2006, the first Romanian Antarctic exploration station was named the Law-Racoviță Station (known since 2011 as the Law-Racoviță-Negoiță Station).

Poșta Română issued several stamps in his honor: 55 bani and 1.20 lei stamps in 1958, a 55 bani stamp in 1968, a 4 lei stamp in 1985, a 2 lei stamp in 1986, a 4.50 lei stamp in 1997, and a 1.60 lei stamp in 2007. The last one is part of a series of four stamps (Scott 4911–4914) commemorating 100 years since the foundation by Racoviță of the first biospeleology institute in the world.

In 2018, on the 150th anniversary of Racoviță's birth, the National Bank of Romania put into circulation a commemorative silver coin with a face value of 10 lei.

See also

Publications

  • Essai sur les problèmes biospéologiques ("Essay on biospeleological problems"; 1907)
  • Cétacés. Voyage du S. Y. Belgica en 1897–1899. Résultats scientifiques. Zoologie. J. E. Buschmann, Anvers, 1903.
  • Énumération des grottes visitées, series 1–7. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, Paris, 1907–1929 (in collaboration with René Jeannel) ("Enumeration of visited caves")
  • Speologia: O știință nouă a străvechilor taine subpământești. Astra, Secția Științelor naturale, Biblioteca populară, Cluj, 1927. ("Speleology: A new science of the old underworld mysteries"; 1927)
  • Evoluția și problemele ei ("Evolution and its problems"; 1929)

Notes

  1. The University of Bristol Spelæological Society, a student society, was founded in 1919.

References

  1. Keith Rodney Benson, Philip F. Rehbock (2002). Oceanographic history: the Pacific and beyond, University of Washington, p. 272. ISBN 0-295-98239-X
  2. "Emil Racoviță, elev al lui Ion Creangă".
  3. "Despre Emil Racoviţă".
  4. Cade, DL (2 September 2016). "This is the World's First Underwater Portrait, Taken in 1899". PetaPixel. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  5. Patrick De Deckker (January 2018). "On the long-ignored scientific achievements of the Belgica expedition 1897–1899". Polar Research. 37 (1): 1474695. doi:10.1080/17518369.2018.1474695. ISSN 0800-0395. Wikidata Q119842165.
  6. Iryna Kozeretska; Svitlana Serga; Pavlo Kovalenko; Volodymyr Gorobchyshyn; Peter Convey (28 April 2021). "Belgica antarctica (Diptera: Chironomidae): A natural model organism for extreme environments". Insect Science. 29 (1): 2–20. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12925. ISSN 1672-9609. Wikidata Q119841816.
  7. J.C. Jacobs (1900). "Diagnoses d'insectes recueillis par l'expedition antarctique Beige (parte Chironomidae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique (in French). 44: 107– 108. ISSN 0774-5915. Wikidata Q119841481.
  8. Racoviță, Gheorghe (2019), "The Founder of Biospeleology and World's First Speleological Institute", in Ponta, Gheorghe M. L.; Onac, Bogdan P. (eds.), Cave and Karst Systems of Romania, Cave and Karst Systems of the World, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–3, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90747-5_1, ISBN 978-3-319-90745-1, S2CID 165492577
  9. "Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent" (in Romanian). At the Romanian Academy site. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  10. "Presendinți ai Academiei Române, 1901–1959" (in Romanian). At the Romanian Academy site. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  11. "Emil Racoviță, primul român la Polul Sud". Adevărul (in Romanian). August 13, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  12. "Curiozitatea curiozităților! Știați că Peștera "Emil Racoviță" din Criva este a treia cea mai mare peșteră de ghips din lume?". nordnews.md (in Romanian). June 6, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  13. "Repertoriul Arheologic Național (RAN)". ran.cimec.ro (in Romanian). December 12, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  14. "Emisiune numismatică cu tema 150 de ani de la nașterea lui Emil Racoviță" (in Romanian). National Bank of Romania. August 3, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2020.

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