Grigore Antipa – geniu inovator în cultură şi educaţie
Grigore Antipa – innovating genius in culture and education

Summary/Abstract: Grigore Antipa entered the public conscience by founding the largest science museum from Romania, the Natural History Museum from Bucharest, but also through his scien tific conception and organizing method of this institution that belongs entirely to him. The scientific and theoretical work that Grigore Antipa developed had consecrated him as great scholar, a genius personality of science, with multiple preoccupations in hydrobiology, oceanology, bioeconomy, ecology, culture and education. His papers, studies, reports, which are being ana lyzed nowadays, decades after its elaboration and publishing, represent true manifests, long term development programs for a modern Romania, some of them are still being viable and valid today. Our study brings into discussion his less known preoc cupations in the fields of education and culture. His proposals for modernizing the primary and secondary education according to the requirements for youth integration, but also the necessity for qualified personnel for the feeble Romanian economy and the importance of founding a network of research institutions. Grigore Antipa proposes the modernization of the superior edu cation by founding of academic centers affiliated to a network of research institutes on domains, with agriculture as priority, which would allow the youth from academic space to complete their studies; he proposes an alternative education for adults by founding the village museums, which were supposed to func tion as cultural centers, which through its thematic would have constituted an example, a model for the common, countryside people, with no studies and who, one hundred years ago, did not possess the communication and information means of our times.

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