Papadopol Aurel (1923–2009)
Papadopol Aurel (1923–2009)

Summary/Abstract: Aurel Papadopol (1923–2009) was a great ornithologist, a complete zoologist, a specialist with a wide range of concerns, whose life was profoundly connected to the „Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History from Bucharest and who contributed in an essentially way to the collection reorganization and museum display. He lived as a secluded, modest, with measureless good sense and with a total abnega tion for the act of culture. To such a man, whose life and activity remained completely unknown, in the shadow of the museum he redounded and loved, deserves our veneration of his memory as much as possible. The first ornithologist of „Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History after Robert Ritter von Dombrovski and after an absence of a specialist in that domain in the museum for more than 35 years, Aurel Papadopol was concerned to establish a complete collection of birds from Romanian fauna. Therefore, he made 140 trips (about 500 days in the field) in which he col lected more than 2000 ornithological pieces (birds, nests, eggs, pelets, bones, etc.), but also other animals from different groups, he turned account in more than 200 published papers, in exhibi tions, public lectures, in broadcastings, lessons with pupils and students, museum guidings, etc.

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